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...sting of the leeches as they snack on Chris' flesh; hear all at once the chorus of insects, an enemy's approaching footsteps on the green carpet and Chris' heartbeat on night patrol. The film does not glamourize or trivialize death with grotesque special effects. But it jolts the viewer alive to the sensuousness of danger, fear and war lust. All senses must be alert when your life is at stake, and Oliver Stone is an artist-showman who can make movies seem a matter of life and death...
...fiery Oscar nominee, the 1984 Camila) never secures her characters in the larger landscape. The Peronistas stay offscreen, darn the luck, while the upper-crusters sit idly by, aspiring to Coward's wit and Chekhov's melancholy. Ennui finally devours them all, long after it has consumed the viewer. By Richard Corliss...
Director Maurice Pialat (Loulou, A Nos Amours) and Screenwriter Catherine Breillat know that police work is more talk than action, and they allow the third-degree sessions to wear down the viewer as well the suspect. The cumulative effect, though, is bracing. Police is a stark vision of a forlorn specialist, doomed to be brilliant at his job. Depardieu...
...course, it was Matthew's intention to use the more disturbing painting to draw the viewer's eye to the wall. "I meant the painting to be disturbing," Matthews tells the science grad student...
...graphics retain a streak of playfulness. Ron Curtis' outdoor table, for example -- a piece of painted redwood fastened to a teak stake -- seems perfect for grownup Cheever children: charmingly zany and casually handy, equipment for a movable fete or a midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version. It is a $5 delight, its function and structure self-evident, its whimsical spirit exactly appropriate...