Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compelled to leave his Texas flock for a mysterious calling in rural Louisiana. Duvall doesn't acquit himself at all, either as an actor or as a filmmaker. But he coaxed true performances from Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, John Beasley and June Carter Cash. But the fine supporting cast does not have much to do. Every scene, every frame of the overly long Apostle centers on Duvall. Alexander Laskey...
Catherine McCormack delivers a refreshing, funny and inspired performance in Marshal Herskovitz's new period piece. As Veronica Franco, a lower-class beautiful girl turned high-class court prostitute, McCormack leads a well-assembled cast in this slightly flawed--yet worth seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and make it shine. Marc...
...police in `50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this be an Oscar contender? I'm not a betting man. Nicolas R. Rapold...
...homme au masque du fer), the sequel to the even more well-known The Three Musketeers. "Leo, baby," one can almost hear the agent saying, "you need a break after Titanic. Why don't you take this film? You'll hardly have to act--it has an all-star cast--I mean, it's almost like a paid vacation...
...wind blew, but no one shivered. A woman who, in retrospect, sounded quite zombified, quietly said, "We have to save the squirrel." Yet no one moved. I was going to be late for an Expos conference, but it didn't matter. Slowly the dog advanced. The squirrel stopped nibbling, cast a disdainful glance over his shoulder and went right back to munching. The dog took another step, and the squirrel, who didn't appear to be looking, took off like a shot, arriving safely at a nearby tree just before...