Word: vein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adapted from Edward Albee's play, the film continues along the vein of Arthur Miller, showing the bizarre mind games people in love play with each other. The film beckons you into the lives of these people as you, like the young couple, played by Sandy Dennis and George Segal, witness the manipulation and power plays of the older, "wiser' husband and wife...
...bends over a teenage girl dressed only in a red knit sweater, a shrapnel wound on the back of her leg reeking of gangrene. Her name is Faida, her eyes are empty, waterless like the rest of her body, and Isabel can not find a vein to insert the intravenous tube that could save her. "The blood vessels close down as they are dying," she explains, failing to find a vein on one arm and trying the other. The girl resists: "Leave me alone." Isabel withdraws. "This one wants to die," she says, and the wound will kill her anyway...
...before Gacy's it was anything but. The most heartrending: the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, sentenced to die for murdering a policeman. On Jan. 24, 1992, in Conway, Arkansas, loud moans spilled out of the death chamber as technicians kept Rector tied down during a search for "good" veins. Attendants were about to prepare a "cut-down," in which the arm is sliced open to insert an intravenous catheter, when a vein in his right hand was finally discovered -- an hour after the operation began...
Even more perverse, from the Hollywood packager's point of view, the film's stars do not have big-time chic and guaranteed box-office appeal, and, Hopper aside, they work in an intense but minimalist vein. Meanwhile, the director, John Dahl (who wrote the screenplay with his brother Rick) is young and virtually unknown...
...hilarious, poignant picture of a harried boss trying to cope with a fractious company. It was the dance equivalent of Day for Night, Francois Truffaut's classic film about a movie director on location. White Oak presents the latest installment, Pergolesi, which shows Baryshnikov swinging along in a modern vein even as he reviews his crowded career...