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...pans lovingly over every elegant, sun-drenched detail--embroidered sheets, flowers, lacy curtains, Hawkins' sculpted profile--before coming to rest on a sleeping, naked Jules. After a few moments of admiring contemplation, it pans back to reveal a delightful surprise: The boy has spent the night not, as the viewer assumes, between his siren's sheets but chastely on her couch...
WHAT PUTS DIVA in a class above the usual plotty thriller is its bizarre setting. There are no romantic sidewalk cafes or sunsets over the Eiffel Tower in this Paris. Instead, the viewer enters a world of neon and cellophane and leather--a world in which vast underground garages contain video palaces and cats have names like "Ayatollah" and everyone lives in a loft. And yet, what makes this punked-out environment intriguing is that it contains many small reminders of the old Paris. Jules first meets Alba when he watches her shoplift records in a discomat. She is dressed...
...want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!" So spoke Jimmy Porter, the cold, cauterizing antihero of John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger. And so might an American viewer today appraise the three major TV networks, where the individual voice tends to get lost in the Valium murmur of a hundred soap sellers, newscasters and tough private eyes. For the unique noise of a writer's whirring mind or an actor's seductive rhetoric, one could only turn in gratitude to PBS and its Great Performances...
...story soon took a turn for the better. Following a Channel 7 evening news item the day after, the theft, a viewer, whose anonymity Roe is protecting. telephoned the police and reported seeing an abandoned trailer that matched Roe's description in a Medford field. By 9 p.m., Roe had arrived at the site and confirmed the viewer's suspicion...
...viewer of "E. T." wrote this summer, in a letter to The New York Times, that the success of a movie with persistent associations to the life of Jesus Christ just goes to show that even in this high-powered age, the greatest story ever told still commands enormous audience appeal. That's undoubtedly true, but the phenomenal success of "E. T." has a broader significance as well: it marks the culmination of two filmmakers' long effort to glorify the mystical at the rude expense of the rational...