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Branagh apparently spent more time pumping iron and tousseling his locks for the film than planning its direction. The film is almost destroyed by poor editing. Victor Frankenstein's comically bad dialogue with his monster and his fiancee is drawn out painfully. We can't bear to listen to gems like the monster's vow, "Frankenstein, I will have my revenge!" or Frankenstein's lament, "What have I done?" Yet the opening sequences, where his strange passion for dark science and his devotion to his family should be established, leave us with the dizzying sensation that we are watching...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Kenneth Branagh's FRANKENSTEIN | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...have inspired film makers since the earliest cinema. The 1931 version uses a tuxedoed emecee to explain to the audience that the story is about two of the universe's "greatest mysteries": life and death. Lynch draws more inspiration from the idea of unnatural parentage and child-rearing; whiie Victor Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive" focuses on the story's horror and its effect on the audience...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Modern PROMETHEU | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...hand. His monster is the product of an inevitable sequence of events: he believes reanimation is possible, and works maniacally until it is achieved. The Frankenstein films have been less successful than Shelley in defining his motive for creating inhuman life. Branagh chooses to make the death of Victor Frankenstein's mother the catalyst for his passion for dark science, necessitating a melodramatic graveside pledge that "no one need ever die again." Eraserhead goes in the opposite extreme, informing the unsuspecting Henry that a baby is expected, and that be can pick it up at the hospital as soon...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: The Modern PROMETHEU | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

Eric Bassin, Sorelle B. Braun, Emily Carrier, Sewell Chan, Victor Chen, Evan J. Eason, Brian D. Ellison, Alessandra M. Gallont Marion B. Gammill, Jeffrey N. Gell, Joshus L. Gluck, Manlio A. Goetzl, Andrew Green, David Greene, Leondra R. Kruger, Jennifer S. Lee, Alex B. Livingston, Suresh N. Magge, Joe Mathews, Andrew K. Sachs, Anne-Marie L. Tabor, Anna...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ELECTION '94 STAFF | 11/9/1994 | See Source »

...What's New Pussycat," the movie that introduced a very young Woody Allen to the world, Victor (Allen's character) asks Romy Schneider if she could love a red-haired, very attractive short man. He is referring of course, to himself, and Schneider looks slightly bemused and ignores the question. Allen hasn't really been able to help asking it again and again throughout his career...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Biting the Woody 'Bullets' | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

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