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...word in its native context--for example "le rinoceros noir," an informative page dedicated to the black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages, shrines to Bogart or Blade Runner, homages to Elmore Leonard or James Ellroy, comparisons of L.A. Confidential and Sunset Boulevard. Among this type of site there were only a few notable quirks. The "Noir City" chat room devotes itself to "bookselling, crime, guns, mystery, sarcasm, dames, and pez." Another, "Hard Boiled," has a direct link...
...while holding some knife or saw to her throat. The characters are so finely drawn that we can make out the contour of the girl's toenail, but though we see one foot we're unsure of where the other falls. Similarly, we can't determine the relationship of blade to neck, the difference between "grazing" and "penetrating" so important to the woman's life and our understanding. These spatial contiguities are lost somewhere in the details of overlap which Walker's silhouettes refuse to disclose...
Richard Jemmons, the self-proclaimed redneck spin surgeon (played by Sling Blade's Billy Bob Thornton), is transparently James Carville. Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod...
...tone of the trilogy's first ballet, "Waterbaby Bagatelles," with choreography by the ultra-innovative Twyla Tharp, ranges from hauntingly mechanical to precociously cute. A gigantic grid of flourescent lights dangling at varying angles just inches above the dancers' heads adds to the surreal, Blade Runner-esque mood onstage. No-sweat-showing spandex and stretch velvet seem to be costume designer Santo Loquasto's fabrics of choice for this production--the men don shimmery silver tank tops and billowy white pants, while the women wear either two-color fluttery gowns resembling beach cover-ups, or bathing beauty-style suits...
With feel-good comedies and soapy ship operas dominating commercial cinema, the visionaries are in retreat. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) have renounced the form. That leaves the creation of dank, luscious worlds within worlds to Alex Proyas. And he'll do fine. The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director of The Crow has a chilling new fever dream called Dark City--a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching...