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...Flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) has 20 minutes to get the 100,000 deutsche marks that will save her thug boyfriend's life. So she goes running through Berlin in search of the loot. Could she take a cab, borrow a car, buy a bike? Yes, but in this breathless adventure logic is less important than a desperate momentum in both the story and the film's style. Telling the plot three times, with cunning variations, Tykwer mixes pixilated photos, split screens, cartooning, the works. Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this...
Though the loss of seven seniors and a brilliant coach looms over next season like a gray cloud, another silver lining appears on the horizon. The freshman class of 1998 has kept the flame of hope burning for Crimson fans. Margaret Elias, who had been the No. 2 player in the country as a high school senior, has blossomed in the No. 1 slot for Harvard this year...
...original movies. Some scenes have the potential to become psycho-emotional monuments in our cultural memory: just as Han Solo rocketed out of nowhere to send Darth Vader hurtling through empty space in Star Wars, so does Anakin Skywalker throw his racing pod into a breathless ascent and flame-out half-way through Episode...
...wouldn't want an enormous amount of open flame, for example," Jackson says...
...straight," she observed. Meanwhile, many of my gay friends agree: sexuality is no big deal. There's no reason to politicize it, to make a big deal of it. Enough progress has been made. A good number of gays (myself included) find themselves embarrassed by the camp and flame of gay culture and wish to disavow...