Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actors suffer from the script's lack of focus. Vaughn is likable as Clay, projecting definite screen presence particularly when he is required to be in James Dean mode-but simply doesn't have enough to work with. Capshaw delivers a few good lines, but just never seems mean enough (despite the castration scene) to be a sultry villainess. The great Judd proves once again that she's good enough to act in anything. In one of the quieter scenes in the film, with Judd and Davies sitting in swings at a drive-in movie theater, their faces silhouetted against...
From the late '60s to the '80s Godard was obsessed with the interchangeability of words and images. In his films, Godard abandoned traditional cinematic narrative to explore experimental filmmaking, placing emphasis on words rather than images as tangible visible entities on the screen...
...television screen hanging above cold salmon, squid and octopus, the North Carolina Tar-Heels were driving on the Virginia Cavaliers in one of the day's college football matchups...
...opposite coast and under the scrutiny of a less sympathetic audience, two Brooklyn cops have exhibited an affliction similar to that of their on-screen counterparts. The torture of Abner Louima was a deplorable act. But, if vitriolic outrage at the perpetrators is the only result of this incident, then we deny real officers the depth that we allow their fictional representations...
...police officers heroically re-entered a collapsing building in order to save its inhabitants, despite orders to withdraw from the scene because their own lives were in danger. The tragedy of these two Brooklyn cops, models of both valour and depravity, is more poignant than anything the big-screen could offer. Unfortunately, the characters in the real life drama can expect no respite from the closing credits...