Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, a series that was a lot more acute about the elusive glamour of TV news. But Up Close and Personal is The Way We Were Hollywood version. Long before its ending (or rather, the endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between the Bosnia coverage and the story about the beauty queen who found...
...world's finest unknown auteur," says Corliss. Largely ignored in America, the 38-year-old Hong Kong writer-director is either a box-office sensation or a cult hero in Asia and Europe. The U.S. release of his cool-jazzy 1994 romantic comedy 'Chungking Express' should change that. The plot: two stories set in a late-night, neon Hong Kong. Or, actually, the same story, told twice with cunning variations: a cop thinks he's in love with one woman, then finds he?s drawn to another, more mysterious one. "Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd...
...opening scene seems straight out of a music video: minimalist stage, stark light, four actors encased in fashionably generic black and red. The impeccably timed dancing, emotionless and overtly sexual; the music, driving and anonymous. A heavily stylized plot takes shape--man fondles woman, who pulls away; another woman claws said man toward her--dominated by the same aggressively heterosexual assumptions that pervade MTV. The talons of this brand of "savage love" are thickly lacquered and varnished. And it's the ritualization of this savagery that makes it seem all the more deadly...
...title instantly traps itself in a certain genre, and the title "Savage/Love" inspires a cynicism which its script tries only half-heartedly to counter. Shuttling from scene to scene with dizzy velocity, the play attempts to cover all the aspects of modern love: jealousy, obsession, loneliness. There is no plot and no development; the nameless characters change personalities in each disjointed episode. It's about as profound and moving as a 30-second sound bite. The audience winces at lines like, "It is love. I will have to hide or flee"--a wince of sympathy for the actors who must...
Though scandal and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency with other male persons" had not yet ruined him and his career, Wilde was already familiar with the cruel custom of ostracism when he wrote this play. The plot alone is a harsh indictment of sanctimonious contemporary values. His character Mrs. Erlynne (Marina Re) is one such outcast. Every high-born man in the city calls on the reputed courtesan, but the courtesy of an invitation to balls and parties is never returned, the honor of which Erlynne desperately wants to regain...