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Rose Troche has created a small gem of a movie with her feature length film debut, "Go Fish." Billed as a portrait of urban lesbian life in the '90s, the film follows two main characters, Max (played superbly by Guinevere Turner) and Ely (the shy V.S. Brodie) as they fall in love with the help of their group of lesbian friends...
...involving the supporting cast to odd shots of hands and candles and lights fading in and out. The rest of the cast (T. Wendy McMillan as the professor Kia, Migdalia Melendez as Kia's lover, Evy, and the cavorting Daria, played by Anastasia Sharp) gossip about the progress of Max and Ely's romance. And I forgot to mention, the entire film is made in black and white...
Nevertheless, Dali was an important artist for about 10 years, starting in the late 1920s. Nothing can take that away from him. Other Surrealists -- especially Max Ernst and Dali's fellow Catalan Joan Miro -- were greater magicians; but Dali's sharp, glaring, enameled visions of death, sexual failure and deliquescence, of displaced religious mania and creepy organic delight, left an ineradicable mark on our century when it, and he, were young. Dali turned "retrograde" technique -- the kind of dazzlingly detailed illusionism that made irreality concrete, as in The First Days of Spring, 1929 -- toward subversive ends. His soft watches will...
Lloyd Bridges also stars as Max, Dove's uncle. He actually says things like "the Old country" and no joke, "Arrrrr!" Most people think that Lloyd Bridges can only do comedys about airplanes. Most people are right...
...Max Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute and one of the world's premier AIDS researchers, said "much of AIDS is still a story of gloom and doom." Essex cited the high rate of infection in Northern Thailand, where one in five adults have AIDS...