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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the film industry's traditional summer vacation from reality, "Lone Star" might be just enough to brings us, quite literally, back down to earth. Director John Sayles presents a skillfully woven tapestry of stories, part mystery and part cross-generational conflict. Beautiful camera work and several fine performances draw us effortlessly into the world and dusty history of a Texan town and of a sheriff searching for his father...
...anyone explain the mystery of Bob Dole? Never mind that he looked into the camera and counseled that "people shouldn't smoke, young or old." What lingered like a two-pack-a-day cough was the clip shown on the evening news of Dole getting testy about the issue. Bill Clinton would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole...
From the first image--Renton jumps over the camera and hurtles down the street as store detectives chase after him, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life hammers the sound track, and Renton delivers his "Choose life" speech--the film is a nonstop visual and aural assault. Slo-mo, fast-mo, a hallucinogenic editing pace and the thick music of Scottish accents mean that you'll have to cram for Trainspotting. Attention must be paid, and will be rewarded with the scabrous savor of the movie's lightning intelligence. The subject is heroin, but the style is speed. This film...
...utterly still arms and legs and their perfectly even gliding motion that they are not walking at all but being towed on a dolly, though the shot shows only their upper halves. An attempt to innovate on the diaolgue scene has one of the actors singing directly into the camera while the other is shown in a mirror; the problem is that the utter lack of emotion of the actor addressing the camera contradicts the schmaltzy lyrics and the resulting effect, rather than being striking, brings the house down...
...course, is old hat to veterans of Arnold's "Predator" phase. Most shockingly, one of the stunts that helps identify the movie--Arnold's leaping out of an airplane and playing "follow that parachute"--features what looks like a very shoddy mixture of blue-screen work and frenzied, bumpy camera movement. Where welldone, innovative action sequences and stories marked earlier Arnold movies, new ones mistake audacity delivered almost tongue-in-cheek for real thrills. Yes, Arnold takes on an airplane one-on-one, but the situation is too implausible even for the most believing action fans...