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...faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman at a wedding reception announces, "When I get married again, I'm gonna marry me a real high-yaller. He may beat me, but I know my good home-cookin' will bring him around...
Films about suburbia typically caricature the bare, brittle conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy’s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother’s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...
ELIZABETH DOLE Fave for Helms' vacancy packs her carpetbag. More interested in the seat or the scooter...
...they are already pretty sweet. In his last five columns, he reviewed five films, a TV cartoon and a website. The verdicts: six raves ("Ocean?s Eleven," the "American Werewolf in London site, "The Others," "El Celo," "Heart of the Warrior" and TV?s "Samurai Jack") and one fave (a few reservations within a positive review of "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back"). Last Christmas of seven new films, he adored five, was mixed on one and hated the highly touted "Before Night Falls." ("Somebody," he wrote, "owes me a freakin? apology...
...Plus, check out our list of the Top 10 summer movies of all time, and vote for your fave. www.time.com/summermovies...