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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether it was sexual taboos in Lolita or individual and societal violence in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick used his films to examine the unspoken problems in our modern world, to step back and look honestly at the issues no one wanted to confront in the open. We'll look for the same fierce realism in Eyes Wide Shut, his last movie, due in July and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (see clip below). In a way, Kubrick was the most moral of filmmakers because he was not afraid to be called immoral, not afraid to tred where audiences didn...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: KUBRICK: A RETROSPECTIVE | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...think there a lot of legitimate concerns being raised by right-wing forces and I think we should confront them or listen to them," Mason said...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Criticizes 'Contradictions' Of Abortion-Opponent Extremists | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...girl is just a face with no identity. But as the plot develops, the viewer learns of the girl's past, her family and the remorseless nature of the men who used her and the audience thus forms an emotional investment in the picture and is forced to confront the same moral issues that Wells grapples with. Still, 8MM is a clear cut below Seven, the film it's most obviously trying to emulate. The reason why Seven left such an indelible impression was that, for all its horrors, there was an artfulness to its perversity, a frightening logic...

Author: By Bill Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PORNOGRAPHERS | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Endpaper: Frozen Out of Widener | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...have the opportunity to listen to the dead. The Widener approach--with a memorial room open for about five non-consecutive hours a day and only made up to look like a place where a person can read--is basically a fear of the past and an unwillingness to confront it head on and ask what it really means...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: FROZEN OUT OF WIDENER | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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