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Finally, there are those unanswered questions that never seem to get settled and never seem to go away. Their very place names cast a pall--Belfast, Beirut, Cyprus--reflecting irreconcilable enmities that have existed for centuries. In other places around the world, stabilized injustice seems to be slowly giving way to whatever will follow. For long periods, this movement may only be measurable by the hour hand of history, but journalism feels compelled to note every ticktock of the second hand. The reader returns from a month's vacation to find Jordan's King Hussein still fretting over whether...
Following 1984 singles "Another Silent Day" and "Send My Heart," The Adventures is their album debut. Avoiding the politics that often pervade the music of bands with similar roots (Gribben, Gribben, and Sharpe hail from Belfast) the band instead opts for stock song themes like love, sex, and relationships. Though lyrics are easily accessible, they at times become slightly monotonous, if not boring...
Gilliam has called Brazil "Walter Mitty meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like...
This film advertises itself as an "erotic masterpiece," and if you believe that, I got some real estate in Belfast to sell you. An artsy erotic movie should have some element of the human form artistically displayed somewhere in those crucial first 40 minutes. Instead, there are lots of sea coasts and flying birds. Jonathan Livingston Seagull will go into ecstasy, but humans are in for a hell of a disappointment...
This may sound like a far-fetched abstraction, but then you've probably never been to Belfast or Londonderry. It may seem over-dramatic, but then it's difficult to visualize from the third story of the New York Times a massive explosion in the middle of a clear autumn night in a provincial hotel, which came so perilously near to killing the entire British cabinet. It seems as unreal as the Royal Wedding...