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...Pretty Horses Starring: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Pen?lope Cruz, Lucas Black D irector: Billy Bob Thornton Opens...
...lads almost immediately encounter a funny, violent, nutsy kid (Black), and you know right away that his heedlessness is going to cause them a lot of bother. Among other things, his wild (indeed, murderous) ways will eventually mess up Grady's soulful romance with Alejandra (the lovely Cruz), daughter of the rich rancher the boys sign on with. All in all, it is, to borrow the old bunkhouse cliché, a rattling good yarn, even if it is all surface, no subtext. Whether there was some larger meaning in director Thornton's original cut - said to have been close...
...Surrealist masterwork "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), directed with Salvador Dali. Pedro Almodovar's deliciously ripe melodramas contain numerous elements first found in Buñuel's Mexican work from the 1950s; in fact, key sequences from Buñuel's giddily psychotic "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz" (1955) are incorporated into Almodovar's "Live Flesh" (1997). And former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam is a clear Buñuel acolyte - the opening sequence of his "Brazil" (1985) seemingly picking up on the imagery that ended Buñuel's final film, "That Obscure Object of Desire...
...Travels by Streetcar," 1953), and a man viewing a priest's ritual cleaning and kissing of altar boys' feet leading to sexually charged stares between the man and the woman who will become his beloved ("El/This Strange Passion," 1952). The coup de grace is delivered in "Archibaldo de la Cruz" when our hero, an aspiring (but terribly clumsy) serial killer, frightens a nun so badly she plunges down a deep elevator shaft - producing, in most cinemas, a hearty round of laughter...
...Governor George W. Bush--who, if Penry's appeal had failed, would have been asked by Penry's lawyers to issue a 30-day reprieve, the strongest step the Governor can take under Texas law. Bush refused such a request in August when another mentally retarded man, Oliver David Cruz, was put to death...