Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good short story writer could probably think of an ending to this anecdote. What would happen when he finally watched the film, as an old man, when the final frame flickered and then disappeared on the screen? Personally, I can't think of a punch-line for his story, any more than I can think of a punch-line for a life...
...upon layers of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight-up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...
...nothing else, Robert Benton's film Twilight is an ode to a fading brand of screen legends. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, an alcoholic former detective in Los Angeles dependent on his employers, retired actors Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon). Harry becomes involved in a murder investigation after Hackman sends him to deliver a package to a mysterious woman. The essential features of film noir are in place in Twilight, which dutifully follows nearly every single convention of the genre. The inconsistencies in the film could be forgivable if the film had any dramatic urgency. Fortunately...
...keeping with realism in the movies, Snipes has taken to the big screen an idea he has expressed in real life. In a move that will probably ensure that he will never surpass Denzel's top spot in the hearts of black women across the country, Wesley Snipes aired what can only be described as generalized grievances he had about Black Women as a group. Though never specifically addressing them, he did his venting in a magazine that exclusively targets black women. Snipes says that he doesn't want to come home to a helpmate who would fight with...
...They have been very motivated this week," Pemper added. "I think the idea of being the sixteenth seed facing the first has excited them--that and being on live TV nationally. They like the idea of having people at [The Crimson Sports] Grille watching them on the screen Saturday night...