Word: multiplexes
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Many of the new channels will be devoted to information services (your morning newspaper on TV) and home shopping stations (specific ones for designer clothes, health products, sporting goods and so forth). Pay-per-view movie channels will proliferate, and premium services will grab up extra channels to "multiplex" their programming -- offering movies on several channels at staggered times to increase the viewer's options. (HBO, Showtime and the Disney Channel have already begun offering such a service in some cable systems...
...Lorenzo's Oil, Emma Thompson in Howards End, Catherine Deneuve in Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous Marines of A Few Good Men? The five Best Actress films have earned only $36 million total at the North American box office -- less than the cheapo comedy Encino Man. The one "hit" in the quintet, Howards End, has grossed...
...popular comedy of its time, Ghostbusters. Stardom is, you seem to be yourself on screen and people love you. Stardom is, you've got two movies out at once -- your hit comedy Groundhog Day and the new crime drama Mad Dog and Glory -- so you are your very own multiplex festival...
Outside of Giardi, who looked like a veteran last year, the rest of the group is seniors, each experienced in the countless options the Multiplex offers...
...dystopic visions of Blade Runner and Brazil -- pictures set in the future but cluttered with decor from the film noir past. The imagery possesses a kind of dour voluptuousness: bleak and busy. Their crammed, skewed compositions excite the eye. These movies won't push Lethal 3 off the multiplex screen; they can't compete with Hollywood product. And that is the happy point. They are appealingly strange -- different from the American behemoths but, unlike most examples of European cine-minimalism, not less...