Word: tales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There will be a lot written this week about Greek tragedies and the awesomely inscrutable hand of God in the affairs of an amazing family. But this is also an excruciatingly personal tale about a very decent and solid and self-aware and funny guy, one who knew a lot about bearing great responsibility with a light but knowing dignity...
Some of the projects (The House on Haunted Hill, with Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush, and Jan de Bont's The Haunting) are remakes. Others recall The Exorcist, Jaws, Rosemary's Baby. But that conservatism simply underlines the urge of top filmmakers to rediscover an honorable American tradition: the tale of psychological terror. Invented by Poe, mastered by Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft--and branded forever on film by Hitchcock--the horror genre is too important to be left to the kids. It speaks to every doubt and guilt we silently carry; it lends a seductive form to fear...
...friend (Beatrice Romand). Here is a film attentive to the generosity of friendship, the cruelty of courtship. As Riviere says, "I want all men to love me, especially those I don't love." But she, Romand and young ravisher Alexia Portal give viewers plenty to love. Modestly profound, Autumn Tale has the savor of a great wine from a small vineyard...
...needed to be at his best, for the story turns on a very thin dime. The night after a grand party, at which both husband and wife indulge in potentially dangerous flirtations, she taunts him about his relationships with his female patients and insists on burdening him with a tale of an encounter she had at a seaside resort, where she and a young naval officer eyed each other erotically. Nothing more than that happened, but she tells her husband, in language that is almost identical in novel and screenplay, "Had he called me--I thought--I could not have...
...still caught up in their detailed work with Kubrick, prefer to see the movie rather indeterminately. "The movie is whatever the audience takes from it," says Cruise. "Wherever you are in life, you're going to take away something different." Kidman says, "I don't think its a morality tale. It's different for every person who watches it." But others draw distinct lessons from the film. Pollack says this "is the story of a man who journeys off the path and then finds his way back onto it, a man who almost loses himself because something awakens a darker...