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9 The Pillow Book For a film about sexual, romantic and literary obsessions, in which a Japanese woman literally inscribes the book of love across the bodies of men, director Peter Greenaway and his production designers, Wilbert van Dorp and Andree Putman, provide the ultimate in layered looks. Japanese calligraphy...
1 L.A. CONFIDENTIAL Everybody knows the rudiments of the classic film-noir manner: chiaroscuro lighting, labyrinthine plots, dialogue written in battery acid. Working up imitations of it has become one of modern Hollywood's minor vices. But--a point usually missed--the style was never an end in itself. At...
3 Chasing Amy Underground-comix artists pair off, then square off in this romantic tragicomedy. He's full of sweetly uncomprehending machismo, she's gay but nervously alert to other possibilities. And auteur Kevin Smith (Clerks) has the best Gen X files in the business, full of compassionate observations on...
The bumptious codger Barney Panofsky of Barney's Version (Knopf; 368 pages; $25) is more than a familiar Richler hero. He is the author's fullest expression of the type: a pleasure-loving scoundrel with a generous romantic streak and a gift that can turn schmoozing into literature. Barney makes...
When Marcus Roberts titles an album Blues for the New Millennium (Columbia), it's no casual gesture. Having played regularly with Wynton Marsalis, the pianist shares with his former bandleader a taste for pedagogy, historicism and sheer ambition. Roberts' two most recent albums were a song cycle about romantic loss...