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Like journalists who pore over dirty magazines in order to debunk them, The People vs. Larry Flynt wants to have it both ways. A relevant point of comparison is with A Clockwork Orange, a far riskier and more complicated film that in arguing for the sanctity of free will dared to create a charismatic protagonist whose exercise of that free will was pointedly horrific. Larry Flynt has the nerve to argue for the sanctity of free speech but--for lack of a better word--censors its excesses. Fortunately, moviegoers who feel compelled to test their First Amendment absolutism need...
...response of the international community to round two of the Intifadah was equally predictable. Like clockwork, the Arab uprising was followed by a myriad of "condemnations," "calls for tranquillity in the region" and a series of United Nations debates which inevitably led to the equivalent of a resolution criticizing Israeli troops for exercising their right to self-defense. France, traditionally no great friend of the Jewish State, joined the Arab nations in issuing a strong rebuke for Israel's defending itself. According to The New York Times, Washington called upon both sides not to raise any "new issues." Someone should...
...York, on the other hand, with its parking-bureau scandals and clockwork rediscovery of police corruption, is merely pathetic. The Spirit of my Chicago is brash, and the hell with it. Lenny Bruce played the city in the '50s and commented, "You know, Bobby Franks was actually a snotty...
...Celestial Clockwork" is a sweet, charming film that will leave you smiling almost as brilliantly as the protagonist, Ana, played by Ariadna...
...film, however, is in the splendid details--the stereotype-crushingly vivid characterizations, the brilliant satire of modernism that is Celeste's "art," the poster of Maria Callas that Ana snatches from her wall before dashing off to France, the similarities in the many and varied wedding scenes. Altogether, "Celestial Clockwork" is a film that precisely and elegantly constructs a paradise before our eyes...