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...someone would spend Christmas Eve at a strip club in Wichita is a philosophically open question,” he says. “How did we end up in this sexual bus stop in purgatory?”But glimmers of the Cusack Character shine through in his interactions with strip club manager and full-time love interest Renata (Connie Nielsen). The raspy-voiced, loose-bloused vixen and her come-hither advances seem too good to be true to the passive Charlie, and her femme fatality is a constant mystery of the film. “She?...
...faster, who got his style because he didn’t have any other shirts. Initially, Phoenix’s low-emotion performance seems stilted, but from the first moment he sings a note, everything springs into relief. Glimmers of Cash’s shy, awkward inner self shine through the blustery tough-guy front he puts up for the public. This is a man who famously sang, “I shot a man in Reno/just to watch him die,” but, faced with June Carter’s wisecracks, turns into a blushing fool. Phoenix...
...portrait of Lenin painted on a broken wall, gazing down disapprovingly. His stern demeanor is broken, however, by jars (the brain-containing type) placed in alcoves cut out of the wall close to the ground and later, more strikingly, by backlit X-rays of people harmed by radiation, which shine out from Lenin’s formerly implacable face. Adding to the alternate-reality effect is the use of stilts for the party leaders and fat suits (and in one case, a costume ballooned to ridiculous proportions) for old babushkas...
...began with “Seven Steps to Heaven.” Assistant Director of Bands at Harvard University and SJE conductor Mark E. Olson, energetic and thoughtful, admirably led to allow the musicians the spotlight, letting their talent shine through...
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