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Wilde largely precipitated his own tragedy, when he rashly brought a libel suit against the father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for publicly calling him a sodomite. Wilde dropped the suit midway through the trial, but the damage was done: charges were soon brought against him for violating public morality. After one hung jury, he was convicted and sent to jail for two years...
...cinematographer Christopher Doyle bathe Gong Li in warm reds, giving her a fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares to avoid sentiment and sympathy, Cheung is the anchor for this mesmerizing essay in love and betrayal...
...four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be fantastic or melodramatic, lighthearted or soul-splitting; the people in them may look exotic and speak other languages. Yet compared with the heroes of U.S. films, they are closer to us--almost inside us. They offer artful lessons in getting through a summer, or a life...
...grunts. Today commanders face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort sex, of favoritism and jealousy eating away at the chain of command and hard-won troop morale, of subordinates wondering if their officer sent them on a particularly dangerous mission to avoid assigning it to a lover. Very few courts-martial involve adultery alone: frequently it is coupled with fraternization...
...moony (Matthew Broderick's Sam), the other female and furious (Meg Ryan's Maggie). They meet (about as uncute as any couple in the history of screwball farce) because Linda (Kelly Preston), his former fiance, has moved into a Lower Manhattan loft with Anton (Tcheky Karyo), her former lover. Sam, an astronomer, has rigged up a camera obscura in a tumbledown tenement across from their love nest, which he uses to snark on them. He charts the many ups and very rare downs of their affair, hoping to predict a big bang in their happy little universe. Maggie, a photographer...