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More movies should be like “Demon Seed.” That’s right, “Demon Seed,” the trashy 1977 adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel about an evil computer that impregnates Julie Christie. I should also mention that the computer, whose name is Proteus, uses a bronze metal phallus.Why must we look back in disgusted admiration at such an objectively absurd film? Certainly not because American cinema is in need of more misogyny, more rape scenes, or more metal phalli. Rather, our horror films—which are supposedly...
...Also playing that night are Cocked n’ Loaded, The Humanoids, and That Handsome Devil. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $9. (CEJ)Alan Hollingshurst. The winner of the 2004 Booker Prize reads from “The Line of Beauty,” his novel about Thatcher-era London. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. 6 p.m. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk. (DJH)Michael J. Sandel. If you can’t get into his popular core course “Justice...
Depending on your choice of friends, bookstores, magazines and professors, you may have heard that the novel is ailing, dying, or dead. If so, rest easy: you have been misinformed. “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst, was last year’s undeniable proof that truly magnificent novels are still alive and kicking—or, in the case of “The Line,” singing.And if any doubt about the vitality of the novel lingers in your mind, such skepticism will be washed away next Friday, Oct. 28, when...
Between the creation of a hauntingly suspenseful aura, the continuation of “Saw”’s novel premise and the unfolding of countless twists and turns, “Saw II” is the type of movie that will have the average moviegoer intrigued until the very end, even though the build is far from perfect. The shock value of the film—in the first scene, a man’s survival is contingent upon his slicing into his own eye (a cutting homage to “Un Chien Andalou?...
Atom Egoyan’s “Where the Truth Lies” may be based on a novel by Rupert Holmes, who is best known for penning “Escape (The Piña Colada Song),” but, contrary to expectations, the film is not about piña coladas and getting caught in the rain so much as pill overdoses and getting found dead in a bathtub.From the opening shot (pan across a bathroom, ominous music, an overly-loving close-up of a naked woman drowned in a bathtub), “Where...