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...Bayou "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." With these words, writer-director Kasi Lemmons begins a story of family love, lust and deceit. Samuel L. Jackson and Debbi Morgan shine in--what? The best film ever made by a black American? Could well be. The year's most haunting family drama...
...brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer of a bribe. She's no longer a hero, merely a protagonist...
...play. The issue of sexuality and gender reversal also arise, although in a different way than Catherine Walker's production intended. Here, Dionysos is a man, which is quite appropriate in the patriarchal society of Greece (and today). He has the ultimate power literally and figuratively; and although they lust after him, the Maenads also sometimes engage in lesbian-ish petting of each other. In addition, a great twist is added to the "Pentheus In Drag" scene as Pentheus is suddenly 'reduced' to becoming another woman drooling over Dionysos. He surrenders his sexual power, and as a result, his political...
...Blood-lust' might be a little more appropriate than 'arrogance' as the Crimson opened the half with murder in its eyes...
...Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then the swindlers make sweaty lust in the shed. And why do they do it? "To be together," the lovers say. "United in blood and death...