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...motivation for Bill Schrader either. He's another brand-new IPO multimillionaire--his company, PSINet, went public last May. It claims to operate the largest service devoted to providing Internet access to businesses and individuals. Schrader's life has remained the same--he still works seven days a week, still drinks 20 Diet Cokes a day, still unwinds by throwing a softball around with a colleague, talking about business. He and his wife, he says, "go out to dinner a bit more...
...City Hall", a cluttered drama that imagines a Faustian battle between Pappas and his deputy mayor, Kent Calhoun (John Cusack). Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can?t afford decent light...
...PAUL SCHRADER SCREENWRITER AND DIRECTOR...
...interest in him, one of his best clients is self-destructing, his boss (Susan Sarandon) is threatening to leave the trade, and an ex-lover (Dana Delany) will have nothing to do with him. In LIGHT SLEEPER, bad things happen to not- so-good people. Writer-director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Patty Hearst) likes to work the margins of American life, and he does so with a certain style. Also with literary pretentiousness and moral portentousness. But the point here is obscure. One keeps hoping he will relax into genre filmmaking, where a crime is just a crime...
...also features an unmarried couple, Colin and Mary (Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson), resident at a hostelry outside their native land and facing up to yet another common middle-class problem. Their setting is Venice; their issue is the joylessness of sex. But the mood, well established by Paul Schrader's direction and Harold Pinter's elliptical screenplay, is one of languid menace. It is personified by Christopher Walken, excellent as Robert, whose psychopathic weirdness simultaneously attracts and repels the couple. And mysteriously energizes them. In his sexuality there is political metaphor. He is an undeclared fascist, hiding the threat...