Word: voyeur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reeve has hit on a key difference between stage and screen acting. On the stage an actor can seduce with gifts of voice and gesture; from the rear mezzanine all faces are equal. But the movie camera, that meticulous voyeur, is no respecter of technique. Its X-ray eye scans an actor's face for a fineness or boldness of line. Because most movies are illustrated fables, the camera wants faces that communicate -- in the immediate emotional shorthand of a close-up -- the character's pedigree to the audience. So film stardom is often the luck of the genetic draw...
...wives and girlfriends, who are more self-aware and pragmatically optimistic. But from the opening, when the boys demonstrate masochistic macho by withstanding each other's punches, to the climax, when all three are beaten, bruised and begging for unattainable forgiveness from their women, Aven'U Boys is a voyeur's journey into moral chaos. Sex is easy and often kinky -- the toughest of the boys has a secret taste for transvestites and whippings -- but in this world, love is an embarrassment...
...Film Festival and deserved even better, can be taken as a commentary on the creation of anybody's art: hard work that is its own reward. Its mind is Rivette's, but its soul is in Beart -- gorgeous, quietly fiery, supple yet stubborn, yielding only surface secrets to the voyeur-artist in every gentleman. They may be all he wants...
...mere egoistic cant. Her latest public catharsis -- a quantum artistic growth spurt, if you will -- is Truth or Dare. It is a panoramic, emetic, beauty-marks-and-all, feature-length autobiographical documentary shot during her Blond Ambition tour. The film, which opens nationally on May 17, is a celebrity voyeur's feast that draws its substance from the dark well of Madonna's life. It is her bid for serious consideration as a multimedia artiste who is more attuned to the aesthetic ideas of Martha Graham (whom she plans to play in a forthcoming film) and Isadora Duncan than...
...ensuing events, the Priest attempts to play voyeur, suggesting that watching the couple copulate will legitimate the pregnancy in the eyes of the Church. Man turns the tables, however, when he suggests that the priest perform the sexual rite. Since the priest "only wishes to help," he has sex with the Woman, affirming that "[i]t is entirely legal." Even the act of sex is cast in his narrow-minded yet perverse religiosity. "To make of that She a knowable her, but at the same time transubstantiate the self...I've got the sweet taste of trinities in my mouth...