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...volume record collection. The songs flow seamlessly out of Quartet West's instrumental excursions, and the effect is closer to magic than nostalgia, like climbing into a Studebaker convertible that rolls out of the fog, letting it take you away again for a ride into the mist...
Writer-producer-director Michael Mann's biggest previous accomplishment was producing "Miami Vice," and it shows. The movie is visually self-indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The soundtrack is equally overblown, with swelling orchestration to hammer every point home. There are no quiet bits; there is no restraint whatsoever. If "Dances With Wolves" was masturbatory, "The Last of the Mohicans" experiments with autoerotic asphyxiation. Motorhead, playing Wagner, would be more subtle...
Oops. Wrong boring American classic. But Longfellow's lines are appropriate nevertheless to a consideration of Michael Mann's ravishing realization of The Last of the Mohicans. From its first images of a deer hunt to its last shots of hero and heroine gazing westward toward mist-shrouded mountains, the film's sensuous evocations of an Arcadian wilderness draw us into a remote realm -- just as the need to penetrate the majesty and mystery of that landscape draws its characters irresistibly on to fates ennobling and tragic...
...jury. Prosecutor White did tell the court that just 20 minutes before the King beating, Officer Powell had sent a computer message to another patrol car saying an incident that evening involving a domestic dispute at the home of a black family was "right out of Gorillas in the Mist." That's "a racial statement," White pointed out. "You have to wonder what was his motive when he was beating Mr. King." But overall, the defense made no more than faint attempts to show that racial hatred could have inspired the officers to impermissible brutality. That issue will...
...Whole Earth Christo, in perpetually waterlogged canvas netting, meant to cool the interior by 10 degrees or more. Expo '92, like the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs, also has its obligatory giant globe, in this case a 70-ft. "bioclimatic sphere" that pumps out a fine cooling mist over a vast stretch of outdoor space...