Amy Taubin.1 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. CRONENBERG) The perfect American family, the perfect American small town--how could they not be a hallucination hallucination, false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. ? In this wide-angle version of Spider, the insanity is institutional, implicating us all. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 2046 (WONG KAR-WAI) Dense, sprawling, intoxicatingly erotic in its images, sounds, and rhythms, Wong's magnum opus is a cautionary tale in which obsessive love is inseparable from the aesthetics of its representation. 3 THE HOLY GIRL (LUCRECIA MARTEL Mar·tel , Charles See Charles Martel. ) This Argentinean filmmaker remakes film language to reflect the interaction of mind and senses in a coming-of-age narrative about a Catholic schoolgirl's compounding of the sacred and the profane. 4 THE INTRUDER (CLAIRE DENIS) An epic poem by one of cinema's most adventurous poets about an adventurer betrayed, physically and metaphorically, by his own heart. 5 BLUE MOVIE (ANDY WARHOL) Seen for the first time since 1968, it's ethereal hardcore--and very witty. Viva proves that she deserved her "superstar" designation. 6 LAST DAYS (GUS GUS Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten (German: CIS) GUS Gravis Ultrasound GUS Great Universal Stores GUS Grown Up Soda GUS Giornalisti Uffici Stampa (Italian) GUS Guide to the Use of Standards VAN SANT) This Kurt/not Kurt biopic is an act of mourning: it's also the ultimate junkie movie. Looping through time and space, it delivers deja vu every ten minutes. 7 NO DIRECTION HOME (MARTIN SCORSESE) The director and his subject--Bob Dylan--never crossed paths when they lived blocks from each other in the '60s, but their virtual meeting in this exquisitely edited documentary unleashes our collective cultural unconscious. 8 FUNNY HA HA (ANDREW BUJALSKI) Often compared to Cassavetes, this twenty-six-year-old 16-mm fetishist is also the Rohmer of post-college malaise. 9 POLICE BEAT (ROBINSON DEVOR) A character study and a cityscape (company) CityScape - A re-seller of Internet connections to the PIPEX backbone. E-Mail: <sales@cityscape.co.uk>. Address: CityScape Internet Services, 59 Wycliffe Rd., Cambridge, CB1 3JE, England. Telephone: +44 (1223) 566 950. movie, it merges inside and outside in a stranger-in-a-strange-land narrative about a West African immigrant working as a bicycle cop in Seattle. 10 ROBERT BEAVERS and OWEN LAND RETROSPECTIVES (WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , NEW YORK) These back-to-back Whitney shows demonstrated the range not only of each of these polar-opposite film-makers but also of the project best known as the "New American Cinema." AMY A`my´ n. 1. A friend. TAUBIN IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF FILM COMMENT AND SIGHT AND SOUND. |
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