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...translation to the screen. He must have realized that Francis' life is significant not for what he does but for what he dreams and fears. But a movie like this, which concentrates on mundane plot, can only show, not reveal. As directed by Hector Babenco (Pixote, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Ironweed lurks outside Francis' soul, like a tramp at a suburban window, permitting only dumb speculation on his fertile inner life. His ghosts are white-faced extras; his trek up Calvary becomes one long trudge toward oblivion. The movie provides a mug shot instead...
...sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women by making them believe so too. He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival. Rickman and Duncan are at once captivating and appalling. Theirs is a black-widow-spider courting ritual of conquests and abrupt abandonments...
PART MYSTERY, part fantasy and part political statement, Pubis Angelical is an ambitious work that attempts to bring together a complex structure and a message of compassion. Manuel Puig, author of the brilliantly successful novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, is counted among the finest contemporary Latin American writers...
...scenes. When the Academy Awards ceremony takes place next week, the spotlight will shine on two independently produced films, Platoon and A Room with a View, which led the nominations with eight apiece. Last year the top acting Oscars went to A Trip to Bountiful and Kiss of the Spider Woman; both were the work of an independent studio, Island Pictures. The major studios left an opening for such films by sticking too long with expensive formulas calling for car chases, special effects and predictable stars. While those features have perennial appeal for teens, the baby-boom generation is developing...
...Kariko said she is not intimidated workingindividually with the arachnology expert. "He'svery approachable," she said, adding that she hasjoined Levi and his wife on field trips andattended spider seminar lunches with Levi andgraduate students