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...Green Door had just a little more going for it than notoriety. The Mitchell brothers shared the artistic ambitions, or pretensions, of the era's porn auteurs. Except for a narrative framing device, the film has almost no dialogue. Chambers' mass seduction scene is accompanied only by the sounds of heavy breathing, moans and the occasional audible wince. One of the film's money shots is an instant replay in slo-mo, then in super-slo-mo and finally in psychedelic greens and pinks. The last two minutes are extraordinary for a porn film: one extended closeup of the faces...
...feed on human blood; soon she infects most of Toronto. The notion of a blond-angel porn star as the carrier of a fatal disease seemed like misanthropic science-fiction then. Within a few years, the festering of AIDS would ravage the world and decimate the sex-film community...
...Cronenberg hired Chambers on the advice of his producer, Ivan Reitman, who rightly figured her name would help sell the picture in foreign markets. If she wasn't quite as convincing as Cronenberg's first choice, Sissy Spacek (who at the time was making her breakout film, Carrie), she was a compelling, scary and often sympathetic presence. In the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg, the director described Chambers as "very shrewd and sharp," and said she "invented her own version of Method acting. When she had to cry, it wasn't a problem, because Chuck would say, 'Remember when Fluffy...
...boat.” “In that way, baseball reflects us.” Gammons said, pointing to the parallel between Hernandez’s characterization and the United States’ immigrant tradition. Burns, the documentarian, said that he hoped that his Emmy Award-winning film “Baseball” gave viewers “an opportunity to think about race,” citing the development of the Negro Leagues and the debut of Jackie Robinson—who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947—as events whose significance...
...with a more forgiving advance-purchase policy. Book three days ahead for travel between Boston and San Francisco starting from $109; with seven days, you can fly from New York City to San Francisco starting from $119. In-flight, order from a good snack menu, choose from a 25-film library or chat with the clever cutie three rows back, with Virgin America's seat-to-seat chat system. Tickets must be purchased by April 20 and must be used between April 14 and June 10 or from August 25 to October...