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...American film, gender-based violence is, unfortunately, business as usual, though it usually assumes a more somber tone. From Hitchcock’s indulgently Freudian Psycho, with its infamous shower slashing, to Demme??s Silence of the Lambs, with its copious shots of bludgeoned women, misogyny and cinema make comfortable, even gleeful, bedfellows. On television, procedural crime dramas such as Law and Order repeatedly render graphic, almost gratuitously gruesome, scenes of brutality against women, which take sadism to creative extremes...
...government is portrayed as near-seemless in the film. The benefit of the documentary’s historical overview, and Dominique’s unwavering criticism of every government, empowers the film to approach critically governments which even knowledgeable Americans have regarded as widely different from one another. But Demme??s view from below, which measures rulers in terms of rural economies, Creole culture and press rights (the three trenchant categories Dominique focuses most of his activism on), provides an altogether different perspective...
...Agronomist’s notes of distress provide some much-needed context and a new perspective to an American public intrigued by the recent political events of Haiti. Demme??s documentary provides a realistic picture of Aristide—who entered the political scene from Catholic priesthood amidst high expectations and who became entangled in the same corruption and tendencies toward despotism that had been the hallmark of previous governments. And through its effective use of interviews with a deceased subject and his relatives, a clear line is drawn between Dominique, the perennial advocate for the poor masses...
Like you, I love The Manchurian Candidate, and, like you, I’m apprehensive about the remake; I don’t think that Jonathan Demme??s flair can compensate for a script written by a guy whose past credits include The Sum of All Fears and Doc Hollywood. On the other hand, I don’t think that remakes are necessarily bad, especially with the right cachet; I was fine with paying top dollar to see the Psycho remake, for example, because I couldn’t pass up the chance to see William...
...point, Reggie saunters up to Joshua and smugly asks, “You know what’s wrong with you? Absolutely nothing.” Given its predecessor, it’s hard to tell if Demme??s stand-ins for Hepburn and Grant, his lovely Beloved star Newton and the hard-edged Wahlberg, can respond in the affirmative in The Truth About Charlie...