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SALVATORE ("TOTO") RIINA, WHO listed his occupation as shepherd, once said the surest cure for a sore finger is to cut off the arm to which it is attached. Last week Italy's organized-crime network was decapitated when the 62-year-old godfather of the Sicilian Mafia was arrested as his car sat stuck in Palermo's rush-hour traffic...
...OZIAN TERMS THAT A CHILD MIGHT UNDERstand, the lobby of the Time & Life Building is a bit like Kansas: gray and austere, a no-nonsense kind of place, populated mainly by adults. But pass through the gray door set off to one side, and suddenly, like Dorothy and Toto, a visitor feels the unexpected delight of stumbling upon a colorful world of spirited munchkins. Welcome to the Time Warner Children's Center, a month-old facility that provides emergency day-care services to company employees...
Like The Nasty Girl from Germany, Toto le Heros from Belgium and Delicatessen from France, Zentropa finds movie energy in spiritual malaise. These films take their cue from the dystopic visions of Blade Runner and Brazil -- pictures set in the future but cluttered with decor from the film noir past. The imagery possesses a kind of dour voluptuousness: bleak and busy. Their crammed, skewed compositions excite the eye. These movies won't push Lethal 3 off the multiplex screen; they can't compete with Hollywood product. And that is the happy point. They are appealingly strange -- different from the American...
...Toto the Hero...
...need a second viewing to appreciate the subtle artistry of the web Toto weaves around a man to whom "nothing ever happened." So see the movie, then stay and see it again. Some of life's, and the cinema's, most beautiful moments deserve to be relived immediately...