Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dunne tries to dazzle with expensive brand names and superficial sociology. He deals in story threads, not plot lines. One is about revenging the murder of a young woman reminiscent of Dunne's own daughter, Actress Dominique Dunne, who was killed by her former boyfriend in 1982. A new low in exploitation...
...convicted, Jerry and Laurieanne Sconce face up to eight years in prison. David Sconce, who is also charged with trying to arrange the murder of the district attorney investigating him, could get eleven years in jail...
...portrays, through popular songs, a Liverpool family trapped in economic poverty and emotional repression. Nicolas Roeg's Track 29, written by Dennis Potter, goes splendidly berserk satirizing American males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this dark, wet comedy...
European directors do not dare or care to compete with Hollywood in the splatter sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast...
Meanwhile, cable networks are bidding aggressively against their broadcast rivals for programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has also been on the offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever...