West Beirut

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on September 7, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Summer Hat Trick If only for Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s The Blair Witch Project and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, the summer of ’99 has ended up a noteworthy time for excitingly offbeat and inventive work from young filmmakers. Now comes Ziad Doueiri’s West Beirut, which is just as refreshing and quirkily original
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Outside Providence

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on September 7, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Tough But Tender Teens I’ve heard Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s work characterized as silly, disgusting and shameless, but rarely heartwarming. Yet to some extent, all their films together share a certain sentimental quality, almost an innocence–no mean feat considering they’re the kind of guys who get laughs from mangled penises and semen-as-hair-gel (There’s Something about
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How Old Is Your Soul?

Written by Alan Cabal on September 1, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

Come Here Often? I used to be very concerned with the disposition of my soul. I got on a reincarnationist kick at an early age simply because it seemed to make more sense than any of the other religious scenarios. The notion of any kind of eternal penalty or reward for the deeds and misdeeds perpetrated
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The Muse

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on September 1, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Lost in Hollywood Albert Brooks, playing a Hollywood screenwriter named Steven Phillips, is going to see Steven Spielberg to pitch a film. Pulling up to the gates of Universal City, he’s told by the guard that the pass list doesn’t grant him a “drive-on,” only a “walk-on.” He’ll have to park across the street
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The Source

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on September 1, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Beats Nicked You might have thought the Beats were just talented and driven writers and canny self-promoters who were plugged into the bohemian social currents of the day and successfully brought those currents to the attention of white middle America. If that’s your impression, you’ll be surprised and amazed by The Source, a documentary
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Written by Armond White on September 1, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Surrender Dorothy Halle Berry would probably make a better Lena Horne than a Dorothy Dandridge. Not as vivacious as Dandridge, Berry’s non-threatening cuteness really does recall Horne’s poised beauty (try Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes for a parallel Dandridge temperament). So in the HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Berry makes the best of loose-fitting apparel.
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The Sixth Sense Intimates Mortality

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on August 25, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Bumps in The Night The one essential thing to know in advance about supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense is what not to know: the ending. Even though I have a few things to say about the ending’s importance to the movie’s cumulative impact, and to the fact that the movie was made in the first
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The Iron Giant

Written by Armond White on August 25, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Brad Bird Project The kids are not all right. The public’s veritable rejection of The Iron Giant confirms it. Hollywood has succeeded in creating a moronic youth audience, a subset of capitalism’s larger audience of robotic consumers. Like last year’s Babe: Pig in the City, The Iron Giant should have been immediately recognized as
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Brokedown Palace, Perfect Blue

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on August 25, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Prison Dames I’ve always had trouble getting into movies about beautiful Americans being brutalized by evil, faceless governments overseas because the movies rarely acknowledge that the Americans aren’t just individuals, but emblems of a rich country’s arrogance, and that their punishment has as much to do wrvation is that while Hollywood likes innocent-American-in-trouble-overseas movies, it
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Bowfinger

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on August 18, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Double Displeasure I have a theory about Steve Martin. Actually, I have two theories about him. The first is that Steve Martin is the kind of artist who is best dealt with in terms of a theory. A corollary of this theory holds that if you can have one theory about someone like Steve
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