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Love Conflicts -- Nailing Neil

Your Friends' writer/director takes a wicked route through relationships

By Scott Timberg
Aug 27, 1998

Even in his grad-student days, playwright/filmmaker Neil LaBute got a charge out of stirring up audiences nearly to the point of physical violence. Take the 1991 run of Filthy Talk for Troubled Times at a makeshift theater in New York City, where the young writer was then studying at NYU...
Deja Vu All Over Again

The cocktail party never ends in le cinema du Henry Jaglom

By Scott Timberg
May 7, 1998

Henry Jaglom's movies offer everything that Americans hate about French films, but with little of the philosophical depth or visual daring that marks the best French cinema. He captures the annoying qualities of Woody Allen movies -- the self-absorption, the feigned feminism, the pretentiousness -- without achieving anything like Allen's...
Love and Abstinence

Director Julie Davis barely connects with I Love You, Don't Touch Me!

By Scott Timberg
Apr 16, 1998

With I Love You, Don't Touch Me!, first-time filmmaker Julie Davis has made a low-budget movie about love and abstinence among under-30s that looks less to the films of her generational peers -- Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming or Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy, for instance -- than to Woody Allen's...
Look Back in Anger

Nil by Mouth is so gritty, it verges on the unwatchable

By Scott Timberg
Mar 5, 1998

British actor Gary Oldman, who made his mark playing a punk in Sid and Nancy and a playwright in Prick Up Your Ears, wrote and directed Nil by Mouth, which has already drawn comparisons to the class-conscious dramas of Mike Leigh (Naked, Secrets & Lies). The film, which Oldman dedicates...
After the Obsession

Is Pedro Almodvar at an awkward in-between stage? Or is he just lost?

By Scott Timberg
Feb 12, 1998

His eye trained on the manic collision of Catholicism and consumerism, Pedro Almodovar has made some of the liveliest, most genre-bending films of the last two decades. The commander of a visual style that emphasizes bright primary colors and bold geometry, he's in love with the glittering surfaces of pop-culture...

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