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Tall order? Well, consider that last year, B.U.F.F. lauded an locally made short called Titler, an absolutely brilliant low-budget singing-Hitler-in-drag conceit, consummately crafted in every respect. Not content to simply croon vulgar showtunes for mere shock value, the film’s protagonist alludes to genuine psychological flaws within his character, giving his songs a thread of narrative while breaking barriers of taste that only shock jocks and the Wayans Brothers dare approach—and for far less thought-provoking ends...
...gibe came as a terrible shock. "I was humiliated. I was embarrassed," she says, still fuming about the incident. "I didn't go to the EPA to be the butt of racially insensitive remarks." But she thought those days were over when President Clinton in early 1993 selected Carol Browner, a noted liberal who had worked as an aide to Al Gore, as the EPA's new administrator. "I was pleased to see a woman with a reputation for being sensitive to civil rights issues become administrator," says Coleman-Adebayo, 48. "I thought she would start a dialogue about...
...about as mainstream as theater gets (though Graciela Daniele's tasteful update, which originally starred Bernadette Peters, goes a long way to neutralizing the politically incorrect treatment of Indians). But a country singer playing Annie Oakley? It's a notion so obvious and unexpected that it has the shock of the revolutionary. The real shock, though, is how well Reba pulls...
...Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears, he has upended and ennobled that box-office staple, the troubled-teen film. From the whispers of his precocious worriers comes the shock of the new and a fresh hope for movies...
...concert at the Lincoln Memorial; a 1901 trick film transferred from paper prints; a 1905 ride on a New York City subway; such avant-garde classics as The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), a work with such power to shock that Salvador Dali, in the first-night audience, kicked over the projector. Modern viewers should jump for joy at this collection--a heroic work of excavation and, at $99.99, an ideal Valentine's Day gift for and from film lovers. --By Richard Corliss