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A Comedy of Marryment
By Peter Szatmary, March 31, 1994
If real-life nuptials are even a quarter as funny as those portrayed in Four Weddings and a Funeral, get me to the church on time. Mike Newell's... More>>
The Paper Delivers
By Peter Szatmary, March 24, 1994
Two minor characters, veteran reporters on a big-city newspaper, are battling over turf on a late-breaking crime story. "You got the cops," one... More>>
The Raising Arizona Proxy
The Coen brothers' best movies couldn't make it, so they sent this one instead
By David Theis, March 24, 1994
I could tell you that The Hudsucker Proxy is a Capra-esque film "about" a little guy's skyrocket ride to the top of American industry, and that... More>>
The Delirium of Society
A woman's portrait of her disturbed mother highlights an evening of women's independent videos
By Valerie Moore, March 24, 1994
In Suburban Queen, video artist Mindy Faber fantasizes that her mentally ill mother, Patricia, using "everyday grease and grime" as war paint,... More>>
Extended Labor
Martha Coolidge and Geena Davis are slow to develop the promise of Angie
By David Theis, March 17, 1994
It's hard not to root for Angie, the new film by director Martha Coolidge. Its story has a handful of familiar elements: we're back among the... More>>
24 Lies Per Second
By Peter Szatmary, March 17, 1994
East German newsreels and educational films can be funny, if a bit pathetically so. A miner supposedly digs four times his coal quota: "From this... More>>
Barely Down Under
By Peter Szatmary, March 10, 1994
If D.H. Lawrence ever were to get a film past the censors, Sirens might be it. Ripe with explicit nudity and suggestive encounters, the movie... More>>
Yucking It Up
By Peter Szatmary, March 10, 1994
As creator, writer, director and producer of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank's Place and The Famous Teddy Z, Hugh Wilson took standard... More>>
On Location with Boy Rifkin
The director of The Chase considers Houston and Keaton
By Edith Sorenson, March 10, 1994
Last August, the production of The Chase cluttered our freeways and city streets -- and gave Houstonians a sample of Hollywood action. Star... More>>
My Life As A Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape -- growing up eccentric in a small Iowa town
By David Theis, March 10, 1994
After Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallstrsm made the magical and heartfelt My Life as a Dog in 1985, he went the route of almost all successful... More>>
Lost Patrol
By David Theis, March 10, 1994
That a new Alex Cox film is opening is welcome news. Highway Patrolman is his first release since 1987's Straight to Hell, which the current... More>>
The Chips Are Down
By Peter Szatmary, March 03, 1994
Instead of calling his latest sports screenplay Blue Chips, Ron Shelton (writer/director of Bull Durham and White Men Can't Jump) should've... More>>
The Little Mexican Tramp
Cantinflas kicks off the MFA's series of classic Mexican films
By David Theis, March 03, 1994
The 1993 death of the great Mexican comic actor Mario Moreno, better known as "Cantinflas," was an event noted in some detail in the U.S. press,... More>>
The Whoo-oo Highway
By Edith Sorenson, March 03, 1994
The Chase harkens back to The A-Team, Batman (the TV version) and old-fashioned movie serials, with a little mushy stuff on the side. It's set... More>>
The Celluloid of the President
A winning documentary about the Clinton campaign's inner circle
By Peter Szatmary, February 17, 1994
What's remarkable about The War Room, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' Oscar-nominated, behind-the-scenes documentary on the Clinton campaign's... More>>
Juliet Done It
By David Theis, February 17, 1994
It took me a while to make up my mind about Romeo Is Bleeding. It has quite a chestnut of an opening: a wasted-looking Gary Oldman stands behind... More>>
Nevermore
By David Theis, February 17, 1994
As the MFA's French film noir series winds down, we get The Raven, an interesting, if genre-fuzzy entry from Henri-Georges Clouzot. This isn't... More>>
Sentiment and Sneering
By Edith Sorenson, February 17, 1994
Reality Bites is promoted, in print and electronic ads, as a comedy about love in the '90s. It's not about love in the '90s; it's about love,... More>>
It's All Great
A finished documentary about an incomplete Orson Welles masterwork
By Peter Szatmary, February 10, 1994
Shortly after the 1941 premiere of his classic Citizen Kane, Orson Welles was prevailed upon by Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department's... More>>
Getaway from Me
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger sprout personalities to save an otherwise lackluster thriller
By David Theis, February 10, 1994
For nearly half its length, I thought the current remake of The Getaway would be just one more failed thriller. The idea of casting Alec Baldwin... More>>
Anything Goes?
By Peter Szatmary, February 10, 1994
What's wrong with a movie musical? Everything, apparently. Preview audiences so hated the musical version of I'll Do Anything that mindful... More>>
8 1/2 Fellini Films
By David Theis, February 03, 1994
Not much has been left unsaid about Federico Fellini. If ever there has been a filmmaker for whom a "lifetime achievement" Oscar was a career... More>>
Dumb Guns
By Peter Szatmary, February 03, 1994
If you wouldn't think twice about finding rap stars hanging out in a bar in the Amazon jungle, if you'd agree that a prudent way to make a... More>>
Peter X
By Peter Szatmary, February 03, 1994
An opening image in Stepping Razor -- Red X, a disappointing biography of reggae legend Peter Tosh, is graffiti on a Jamaican boulder reading... More>>
Rotten Johnny
By David Theis, January 27, 1994
Naked arrives preceded by glowing reviews and perched on numerous critics' year-end best-of lists. And it's the latest product from the generally... More>>
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