Word: gorgeousity
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...lines are so tangled that it's hard to tell yin from yang. But it's easy to tell hit from miss. Farewell My Concubine, Chen Kaige's Chinese film that won a top prize at Cannes this year before being briefly suppressed by the Chinese government, is a gorgeous, galvanizing epic with starmaking turns. M. Butterfly, the David Cronenberg film of David Henry Hwang's Broadway play, fumbles its romantic and political metaphors and loses the game...
...Champs-Elyseeshey-we're-in-Paris variety) that the film's foreground and background are reversed. The city takes center stage, and the actors become simply street performers, amusing us with their starving artist routine. Set against the backdrop of "La Vie de Boheme," Kaurismaki has produced a gorgeous film about Paris...
...Permissiveness" is the standard explanation, meaning that we have become a slack-willed race, slaves to every passing genital urging. Why else would a man take up with a gorgeous blond cocktail waitress, forgetting that, for all practical purposes, he already had one at home? Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage...
...Utero: inside the womb; before birth. The title is a misnomer. Nirvana has been reborn. Its 1991 album Nevermind was a great leap forward (after Bleach, in 1989), selling more than 4 million copies. Song after song started off with gorgeous guitar hooks, as in the anxious chords that kicked off Smells Like Teen Spirit, or the bouncy bass-guitar strumming that launched Lithium. Its punk-inspired, we-couldn't-care-less ethos seemed to reflect the restless apathy some young people felt toward their times. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind," Cobain sang on Teen Spirit. The strength of Nevermind...
...hits just keep on coming. Farewell My Concubine, which shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, brings its gorgeous panorama of Chinese history and sexual hysterics to U.S. screens in early October. Oliver Stone has returned to Southeast Asia to film Heaven and Earth through a Vietnamese and feminine perspective, basing his movie on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip. And if you can't wait for the December opening of Heaven and Earth for a Vietnamese take on the ravages of war, scout around now for From Hollywood to Hanoi, a singeing documentary journey on film...