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...festival, one excellent film is a fluke, two are a faint promise. Cannes '93 has showcased a dozen or so delights, including Mike Leigh's comic scorcher Naked, from Britain, and Alain Cavalier's potent French film Libera Me, a deadpan document, in wordless closeup, of political prisoners and their torturers in an unnamed country -- any country, alas. Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, a sequel of sorts to his great Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both...
...sexual orientation but hubris. The left lost because it overreached, not because gays were doing the reaching. The Commander in Chief has discovered that the Congress, the people and the Pentagon also have a say in how the military is run. New York City has a large and politically potent gay subculture, which celebrates itself in a variety of venues, from Broadway plays to street theater. But the Irish Catholic establishment believed the gay right to party stopped short of crashing its party, and the courts agreed. As far as the offending curriculum was concerned, most of the parents...
...also by her gender. Lorraine Toussaint, a major star waiting for discovery, embodies erotic power and deep pain. The final words of Matura's play are lifted straight from Synge. Toussaint makes them agonizingly her own, proving anew that English is not just a cultural artifact but a potent instrument for use by any artist...
Obviously, Alexander has never seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He is therefore ignorant of Hollywood's potent, immemorial belief (and the nation's wistful hope) that innocence can reform the capital's swampy soul. It's a dear dream, and working off it Ivan Reitman and Gary Ross have fashioned a dear and funny movie...
...nasty rumors of the lacrosse team's demise have started to dissipate with the help of the potent winds of victory...