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GREAT BALLS OF FIRE. This biopic stamps demon rocker Jerry Lee Lewis as a feral innocent in a time warp, instead of a sexual threat for Middle America. Dennis Quaid inhabits Jerry Lee with a nicely calculating recklessness, and Winona Ryder is hypnotically enigmatic as the singer's nymphet bride...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie compelling. Sand was never so sexy...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie-compelling. Sand was never so sexy...
...virtue of Anna Hamilton Phelan's script, Michael Apted's direction and Sigourney Weaver's strong, stark performance that they resist sentimentalizing Fossey. The filmmakers seem content with the notion that saintliness is a form of lunacy. For their lack of conventional biopic piety, they deserve respectful gratitude...