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...other national cinema the antics in the first reel of Mukul S. Anand's Khuda Gawah (God Is My Witness) might be giggled off the screen. But Indian films are like no other: a churning blend of epic conflict and cootchy choreography, of Sergio Leone and Vincente Minnelli...
...finest, most brutally consistent performance belongs to Robert Carlyle as the vicious, obnoxious Begbie, whose friends tolerate him out with grudging and fearful respect. You indeed feel real fear that you might be tapping the seat in front of you too much and Begbie's there, ready to reel off a stream of incoherent expletives and then sink a broken beer bottle into your neck. Tearing up a hotel room, living uninvited at Renton's, fighting dirty in brawls--he perfectly embodies the worst of every violent, drunken rage...
...life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience...
...MOVIES . . . LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just...
...Clinger who uncovered Filegate as he sought to get to the bottom of Travelgate. His committee had been seeking 3,000 pages of White House documents related to the travel office. The committee managed last month to reel in 1,000 of those pages, which contained the first evidence of the latest escapade. Clinger is threatening to hold the White House in contempt if it does not release the next 2,000 pages. The Clintons may be wondering whether another Livingstone is lurking among those dusty documents. Or they may already know...