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But really, there's little that's truly smutty about Nerve, except maybe the plethora of darkened "provocative" crotch shots. All of the writing tends toward the literate side, but it's boring. The personal revelations are clinically detached and dull ("I walked around naked...I had sex in a...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Touching a Nerve.com | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

The mood of the film doesn't help the matter. Defined by the triteness of the setting (a generic middle-America suburb/commercial center) and the over-exaggerated antics of the actors, the tone is downright campy, a far cry from the insightful and sharply satirical mood of the novel. Bruce...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soggy Breakfast Has No Juice | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

There have been certain films throughout the course of the 20th century that have defined a generation. In the '40s, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart's romance captured the minds of a war-torn society, and in the '70s, Star Wars brought fairy tales to the baby boomers. Films in...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Shots with American History Sex | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps it should be of no surprise that in recent years the most successful cinematic portrayals of American life have come not from native directors but foreigners. Unlike often-jaded American filmmakers, foreign directors have a unique perspective and can be more attuned to more subtle aspects of American culture...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: CINEMANIC: A SECOND LOOK: Filmmaker as Foreigner in American Beauty | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

Hollander's argument for why fashion matters is the same argument people sometimes still make about literature; in her excellent Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (1994), she writes, "The important imaginative function, the spiritually enlarging character of fashion, is often blindly ignored so as to paint fashion...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seriously Fashionable | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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