Eyes Wide Shut’s Images

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on July 28, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

The Photographer’s Final Frames Every Stanley Kubrick movie came down to an image, or a set of them, searching for two things: its own meaning and an appropriate dramatic elaboration. The fact that both searches were, in any given film, seldom entirely successful has not diminished the power of his work; in fact, it has bolstered it, especially for those
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Blair Witch Scares

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on July 21, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Witch Reality Smart, low-budget and appealingly ragtag, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez’s The Blair Witch Project is something I’ve been looking for for 20 years: a horror film that doesn’t depend on ostentatious gore or special effects. Relying on several unusual strategies for fright, it’s one of those films you’re sure to enjoy more the less you know about it
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Lake Placid

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on July 21, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

What a Croc Lake Placid, about a 30-foot crocodile terrorizing a lake in Maine, is the kind of movie that starts with a diver being bitten in half, and ends the scene by having the sheriff who hauled the dead diver’s bisected torso out of the water just sit there gawking at the corpse in the boat and the
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Kubrick: The First Film Nerd

Written by Armond White on July 21, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

After the July 11 screening of Lolita, both the Museum of Modern Art and the Anthology Film Archives concluded their early career tributes to Stanley Kubrick. These mini-fests are part of what TheNew York Times has described as mounting expectation for this week’s opening of Eyes Wide Shut. But seeing Kubrick’s 1956 racetrack thriller The Killing for the first time
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Tripping with Wilhelm Reich

Written by Alan Cabal on July 14, 1999. Posted in Books, Posts

American Odyssey by Wilhelm Reich edited by Mary Boyd Higgins Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 453 pages, $27 Orgone Player In the course of my long sojourn on the fringes of our society, way out where the buses don’t run too often, I’ve occasionally come across adherents of the orgone theory of Wilhelm Reich. Not often, because they are
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American Pie, Wild Wild West

Written by Matt Zoller Seitz on July 14, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

American Pie directed by Paul and Chris Weitz Humor, Pink & Black American Pie brings new meaning to the phrase “coming of age,” and provides the South Park movie with its only serious competition for the title of Grossest Film of the Summer. A precision-tooled yuk (and yuck) machine designed to pander to teens and teens-at-heart, the film takes the subtext
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Autumn Tale

Written by Godfrey Cheshire on July 14, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Autumn Tale directed by Eric Rohmer A French Harvest Autumn Tale, the last in Eric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons,” is, like so much of the director’s work, a film that’s at once stunningly lovely on the surface and astonishing for its depths. Given that, it will be to the taste of a only small fraction of
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An Ideal Husband

Written by Armond White on July 14, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

An Ideal Husband directed by Oliver Parker Culture’s End Riding a bus to the Hamptons, a friend recently watched An Ideal Husband, on video. So did I—but in a theater. An oddly appropriate experience, since Oliver Parker conducts this adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s love roundelay just as a tv director would: mostly closeups and perfunctory medium shots for
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South Park

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

South Park directed by Trey Parker If John Waters circa 1979 made a Walt Disney movie, the result would look a lot like South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut. That’s no idle comparison: One of the most striking things about this freakish, fire-breathing big-screen version of the Comedy Central cartoon series is what a large number of Disney elements it
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My Son the Fanatic, When Love Comes

Written by Armond White on July 7, 1999. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

My Son the Fanatic directed by Udayan Prasad Taxi Driver A remnant from the 80s when multiculti was chic, international smart aleck Hanif Kureishi grows up with My Son the Fanatic. He has finally found a sober, wise use for that spark of intelligence and humor first seen in his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette but later squandered in
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