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...take the alternate title, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and you've got a decent description of Bill Clinton's foreign policy. No endgame? No vision? No problem. Just push the button and let those smarties fly. Kubrick found Peter Sellers in Lolita; the U.S. found let-'er-fly diplomacy in the Gulf War. And you know what? They've both served us pretty darn well...
...commentary of Wag The Dog seems tame next to Kubricks apocalyptic fairy tale, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Even the most sexually-driven movies today, from Basic Instinct to Dangerous Creatures, look childish next to the sophisticated eroticism of Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which was withdrawn from theaters...
Whether it was sexual taboos in Lolita or individual and societal violence in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick used his films to examine the unspoken problems in our modern world, to step back and look honestly at the issues no one wanted to confront in the open. We'll look for the same fierce realism in Eyes Wide Shut, his last movie, due in July and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (see clip below). In a way, Kubrick was the most moral of filmmakers because he was not afraid to be called immoral, not afraid to tred where audiences didn...
...about the current state of movies aside, Gods and Monsters is undoubtedly worth seeing, perhaps worth seeing twice. It is without doubt the most human film to have come out this season. That is to say, it concerns itself not with explosions, but with people. There is a certain Lolita-esque aspect to Whale's pursuit of Boone--the degenerate European going after the ingenue American--but this is balanced by the film's ultimately sympathetic portrayal of both characters. There's something worthwhile in the tension between a film dealing with homosexual love and a heterosexual audience member: unable...
...your Christmas lights out until Labor Day. Get in on the interior decorating action as 343 posters are auctioned at Skinners Auction Gallery. The selection ranges from The Seven Year Itch to The Day of the Triffids to Dirty Harry. And for you seniors courting first-years, try hanging Lolita or The Graduate over your bed for that suggestive effect. 3 p.m. 63 Park Plaza, Boston, 350-5400. FREE...