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The expressions on the locals' faces were priceless. The middle-aged men sitting around the bar--fully bearded pirates with crooked the teeth and beer bellies--looked satisfied with life and relaxed. Ditto for the women watching the movie intently.
MOVIES . . . STRIPTEASE: Whatever lubricious thoughts the advance buzz may have induced, 'Striptease' is not about Demi Moore1s getting naked ? well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say a damned handsome woman. But so far as this movie is concerned, not a very...
No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer's movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects. There are no explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow...
MOVIES . . . LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to...
That's a great pile of narrative nuts and bolts and, dutifully sorting through it, Bergman forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin--smart, spunky and a former FBI employee--is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse...