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...film, so he finally makes the town so endearing that one of the '90s kids decides to stay there. (Gee, wait till Mom finds out!) He hopes you will too. That's the difference between today's best Hollywood filmmakers and the top independent auteurs. Todd Solondz and Hal Hartley don't care if you like, or even get, Happiness or Henry Fool. Ross wants to point a finger while you shake his hand...
This has been a top year for indie cinema. Fertile talents have emerged: Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), Darren Aronofsky ([Pi]) Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss). Familiar renegades prove they can expand on their obsessions: Hal Hartley in Henry Fool, Neil LaBute in Your Friends and Neighbors. An old timer like James Ivory displays renewed grace with A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. And this fall four filmmakers who made a collective splash in 1995 and '96 are presenting works that offer hope for a better, bolder American moviescape...
Happiness doesn't easily admit to comparisons; though it carries echoes of Manhattan, Nashville and Hartley's pictures, it has a unique equipoise of soap opera and slasher film. After Solondz's scabrous little preteen angstathon, Welcome to the Dollhouse, earned more than $4 million on a budget of $800,000, October Films sponsored his next, $3 million project. But October was pressured this summer by its corporate parent, Universal Pictures, to dump the film. It will be released, unrated, by its own production company...
...dressed couples into art houses to see Deep Throat, the current trend is without the self-aware camp of the earlier one. The porn stars going mainstream are doing it slowly, in cameos or roles in small independent films, without the freak-show p.r. that trumpeted Traci Lords. Nina Hartley, a porn performer for 14 years, says people are "not using pornography to say how hip they are; they're using it to improve their sex life." Or more likely, as a substitute...
Heston may fancy himself an American eagle, but he's really just a hypocritical chicken hawk. LITZI TREVINO HARTLEY Naperville...