Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banned novel and proceeded to make several films exploring sex. She wrote Romance intending to challenge common conventions of feminine desire. The abundant analyzing is obvious--a clear mark of a "woman's" movie. We hear all of Marie's thoughts in voice-overs la Kevin in "The Wonder Years." Of course, the issues at stake are more perverse. "They say a man who screws a woman honors her," we hear after Paul rebuffs her advances. Later, she observes, "Women are the victims men need for atonement" and "Love is dumb--it's just a power trip." Perhaps Breillat wanted...
...must contemplate why, in the auto-pilot of self-absorption that is washing and drying hands, we stop in our tracks at the sight of a woman exiting one stall and a man entering the next-why these two Harvard students, equal under the veritas, stand momentarily and wonder at each other. This truly is the meaning of liberal education...
Peering at the set list and the five unplayed songs after the set-ender of "Lips" made me wonder if the band was coming back, or if I even wanted them to. For a band so magical on recording, the show had been incredibly flat and lifeless. The promise of the show died in the middle of the opener "Rescue" and was only recaptured in spurts: the biting "The Back Of Love," a rejuvenated, energetic version of "The Cutter" and a sensitive rendition of latest album's title track...
...slightly odd looking comedy. Mystery Alaska's funny roots are evident in this rip-roaring comedy which combines an awful idea with some ingenious humor. The movie takes a while to get started, and after a half an hour of crude jokes about sex and hockey, you begin to wonder if people do anything else in Mystery besides fornicate and smack pucks. This satiric comedy points out the fact that, well, they...
...question Fonda seems to anticipate is what it is like belonging to such a famous family. With Henry Fonda as his father, Jane as his sister and Bridget as his daughter, it's no wonder! Without prompting, Fonda makes it clear that he never felt that the Fonda family success rests on Henry's legend. "It's not that Henry was my father or I'm Bridget's dad...the talent in this family is something we are all very proud...