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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Equally full of contradictions and strange pairings is The Shining (Harvard Film Archive), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller. The novel was an everyday tale of a haunted resort hotel, charting an ordinary man's descent into insanity. In Kubrick's version, the main character (Jack Nicholson) is completely unhinged from the very start of the movie, leaving out much of the book's terrifying psychological horror. Nicholson comes off as a cross between Manson and Carson, a connection made explicit by the film's most famous line, "Heeeere's Johnny...
...Bhagavad Gita is central to the American Vaishnava movement. It was reading this book that led Dan Coggins, currently a member of the Boston temple, to convert. A Sanskrit translation of the Ghita he looked at didn't inspire him, but, three years ago, when he read Prabhupada's version, he was transfixed. "It was the most potent form of religion I could find...
...watching this schlock? Because it's a glitzed-up version of the trashy garbage Americans watch every week anyway. So why, then, are people so worked up about Amerika...
...hard to picture a film like Sunday, Bloody Sunday being made now. Its sexually ambivalent central character would clearly be a villain. Five years ago, Beyond Therapy, an amiable stage comedy about bisexuals, was well received in London, but audiences at screenings of the forthcoming movie version are uneasy with it. Even to blase sophisticates, bisexuality is becoming ethically questionable...
...which any self-respecting femme-fatale would give her feather boa to be seen through, holding a smoking revolver in her arm-length velvet glove. Aided by Greg Sullivan's lighting, director Deal stages images that always seem eerily appropriate, as if we all carried around the Judy Garland version of A Star is Born like a race-memory...