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...Emerald Forest" earned director John Boorman stripes as an adventurer with an eye for pictorial rapture and social turmoil. But in "Beyond Rangoon," an improbable tale of an American damsel-doctor caught amidst the genocidal Burmese civil war, Boorman "lapses into banal visual stereotyping," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "The rebels are thin, winsome, saintly, while the nasty soldiers have bad skin and potbellies. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura (played by Patricia Arquette), who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician...
...movie about making movies, "Tom DiCillo's 'Oblivion' pleasantly surprises with its cunning, and by not surrendering to ego and ennui," saysRichard Corliss. This independent movie is about the filming of exactly three shots in an indie movie. "Everything goes hilariously wrong," chuckles Corliss. The boom mike dips into the frame. The idiot movie star unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist -- "imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman." It's a funny film, acted with a deft, manic touch...
Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, Phoolan Devi in the early 1980's became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt elite. Her movie bio, saysTIME's Richard Corliss, "has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped --- enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director...
Annie Lennox follows "Diva," her aptly titled 1992 album of her original music with a recording of 10 old and new songs written by others. "In Divadom," says TIME's Richard Corliss, "an album needs only one great song. Medusa has two." The first, a cover of "No More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple...
...pleased that critic Richard Corliss noted the attention to detail by the makers of Apollo 13 [CINEMA, July 3], but there were some errors in the review. The names given to the command and lunar modules of Apollo 13, Odyssey and Aquarius, were not, as the article implied, derived from the entertainment-industry products 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hair. Astronaut Jim Lovell's book clearly states the derivation of the names: Odyssey because Lovell "plain liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters...