Word: mad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evil can be passive, like Albert's, or gross, like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in 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...
...case of lonely-hearts murderers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, this poisonous, beautifully acted tragicomedy exerts a cold fascination. Virtually every scene is a single shot (no intercutting to cue emotion); the camera prowls like a smooth, stealthy voyeur. Yet the film is true to the ferocity of mad love. There is a deep crimson in the couple's passion that, in the end, can only fade to noir...
Then, as now, the Dow Jones averages had been gyrating wildly. Then, as now, the market was overvalued on an earnings basis, meaning that people were paying way too much for future earnings versus what they had paid historically. Then, as now, foreigners were buying like mad, and we know they are always late to the party...
President Kennedy: Whatever action we take against Cuba, a lot of people would regard this as a mad...
...Heinrich (Pitt), glamour boy of an empire mad for mountain climbing, joins an expedition to scale Nanga Parbat in eastern India. The troupe is led by Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), but Heinrich will say sir to no man. He pays no attention to his own severe pain, little more to the safety of his comrades. Failing to reach the summit, they are taken as prisoners of war by His Majesty's Government in India. Four times Heinrich tries to escape; each time security is increased. When Peter determines to get out, Heinrich thumbs a ride on the jail break...