Word: noir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TRUE ROMANCE and KALIFORNIA: These glam noir films are all blood, greasy hair and bad grammar. Kalifornia features Brad Pitt, America's coolest male star, as a grubby killer. Patricia Arquette, the gum-cracking call girl in True Romance, is also an Armani model...
...Friday, Oct. 1 and at 1:15, 5:30 and 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2. Greta Garbo stars in "Anna Karenina" at 4 and 7:50 p.m. and "Queen Christina" at 2, 5:50 and 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3. See French film noir flicks "Jenny Lamour" at 3:45 and 7:30 p.m. and "The Murderer Lives at 21" at 5:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 4. Political observer Molly lvins reads from her latest book "Nothing But Good Times Ahead" at 5:30 p.m. and action director John Woo's Vietnam film "Bullet...
This is seriously rancid noir, with an archetypal plot: a loser on the run, hooking up with strangers who are very good at being bad. In Mexico, Alex (Kevin Anderson), a fugitive sailor, falls in with Missy (Rosanna Arquette) and Mills (John Lithgow), a married couple linked like felons on a chain gang. There is a slim mystery, with the federales in pursuit, but this is at heart a study of the cages three people have made of their lives. Mills says what they all feel: "I just can't get out of this goddam life...
...this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
...angel, but she needs some new material. THEATER A timeless comedy urges women to trade sex for peace. CINEMA Bad Behaviour is an improvised comedy about disheveled lives. BOOKS A lively biography of Philip Larkin, England's poet of gloom. TELEVISION The Wrong Man is sleazy, stinging film noir set in Mexico...