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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adjani) and Henri (Daniel Auteuil), sumptuously dressed (the mind boggles at just how much Adjani's dress must have cost), kneel in the cathedral while a chorus the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings in the background. Chereau impresses the luxury and pomp of the scene upon the viewer's mind, but undermines the splendor when, after Margot refuses to say "I do," her brother Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) hits her in the back of the head so that she assents...

Author: By Joel VILLASENOR Ruiz, | Title: Chereau Massacres Lush "Margot" | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...

Author: By Jonathan Bonanno, | Title: An Ordinary Man Lives a Poignant Life | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...says Meryl Streep, with whom Ryder co-starred in last year's The House of the Spirits. "It can't seem to get enough of what she holds in her eyes." Ryder has that double charm of the true movie star: the charisma to draw emotion from the viewer, the technique to express delicate shadings of that emotion. "Winona," says Armstrong, "has huge technique for someone her age." At the same time, she adds , "like the best actors, she intuitively thinks into her characters." It's a method both more direct -- from her eyes to your heart, grand old movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Take a Bow, Winona | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...Viewer call-ins feature significantly on Youngbloods and on almost all NET's programming. From mid-November to mid-December, NET fielded 56,000 on-air viewer phone calls, up 18,000 from the month before. These days, few call The Progress Report without profusely congratulating its host. "What a thrill, what a thrill to speak to Newt Gingrich," said one caller. "I salute you, ) sir." Fear not that Network Newt will be lost in a 500-channel universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Network That Newt Built | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...educate them. It's humanism at its most Panglossian. But Michael Apted, who has directed vigorous woodland women before (Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter, Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist), focuses on the weird wonder of Foster. Of course her portrayal is a stunt; of course the viewer is aware of the distance between the actress and her role. Yet she undercuts cliche with a fearless, fierce, beautifully attuned performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Wild Child or Wise Woman? | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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