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...hottest party of DNC week last summer was at Louis Boston, the independent retailer internationally recognized as one of the finest—and therefore, priciest—in the world. The Creative Coalition’s invite-only VIP gala drew congressional bigwigs and Hollywood-types alike, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ben Affleck, Alyssa Milano and a Baldwin brother. You too can make like the rich and famous and host a posh wine and schmoozing affair in the store’s Restaurant L, which features minimalist slate gray walls, weird-looking flowers and hip-looking people...
...curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled ever since...
...terrific that a part-time moviemaker has directed so many films that cogently explore the language of sex. But it suggests that the rest of Hollywood isn't really trying. The occasional indie movie of today might have a warmly erotic scene (as inP.S.) or portray adults seduced and baffled by sexual possibilities (Kinsey), but mature audacity is in pretty short supply. Seeing Closer, teetering from empathy with to disapproval of each of its characters, a moviegoer has to wonder, Why can't there be a dozen, a hundred, films like this? Where's the good...
...This is a brutally cold movie," Kirk Honeycutt wrote in his Hollywood Reporter review, "where the characters invite our disgust and love feels like a brittle four-letter word.... This is not a movie anyone is going to warm up to." Well, I did. I was warm from the start - not aroused but excited that so much classy conniving was unfolding before my eyes. Here's a movie that's alive at every moment; for me, there was no emotional downtime...
...terrific that a part-time moviemaker has directed so many films that cogently exploring the language of sex. But it does suggest that the rest of Hollywood isn't really trying. Seeing "Closer," teetering from empathy to exasperation with each of its characters as one would with a real lover, a moviegoer has to wonder: Why can't there be a dozen, a hundred films like this? Where's the good and bad sex in movies? Why can't directors locate where we live, how we love and lie to each other, and get closer...