Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long, tiresome history of odd-couple movies. The sweetness that develops between them as they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...
These various paramours are played gamely by Aaron Zelman, who spends more time stripped down to his underwear than he does in costume. Zelman also plays the grave doctors who try to save Anna, as well as the threatening underworld figures Carl must deal with...
Julie Zando avoids the pitfalls of personal narrative (one hopes) in her retelling of the French pornographic novel "The Story of O." Underneath the Rockpile Diner, a dusty underworld combines sadomasochistic ritual with the flavor of the Old West. Be forewarned: this is not a cowboy movie. However, if sadomasochism is an interest/hobby, this video promises, according to the press release, "a more holistic understanding of sadomasochistic desire and practice" than the traditionally negative feminist perspective...
...underneath the silicon respectability resides a seedy underworld. And prim and proper Harvard has given all of us a free ride...
...chance encounter between four American travellers and two native ladies of the night thrusts them into the Canadian underworld where they are forced to struggle for survival. In the process, they learn about the world, about love, about themselves...