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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Seduction on Canvas | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madonna In Bloom: MADONNA | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joe MARTIN Hill, | Title: How Patriarchy Came Tumbling Down | 10/26/1990 | See Source »

MONSIEUR HIRE. In rank solitude, a strange man (Michel Blanc) watches a pretty woman (Sandrine Bonnaire), and someone has murder in mind. From the Georges Simenon novel, French filmmaker Patrice Leconte spins a handsome web of obsession, betrayal and death. Blanc is spookily splendid as the pathetic voyeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: May 7, 1990 | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...just push--he probes their psyches, tests their emotional limits. Zach is a complex, manipulative character who does his best to create good musical theater. Howells plays the role so adeptly that Zach loses none of his complexity as he assumes the role of Machiavelli, Svengali, father-figure and voyeur...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, | Title: It's On Line, Off Line, and Back Again in the Chorus | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

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