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Goldie, the face of drum ‘n’ bass, tries his hand at two turntables and no microphone.
Men With Guns
Writer-director John Sayles, who seems incapable of making an uninteresting film, has come up with perhaps his most original scenario yet, one that combines the harsh historical acuity of such past efforts as Matewan (1987) and Eight Men Out (1988) with the shimmering tall-tale mood of his The Secret of Roan Inish (1994). The film…
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Ruth Ann Swenson takes Manon to thrilling heights.
The Object of My Affection
Two New York Cities exist in The Object of My Affection. One is an affluent city of power, a place where prominent tastemakers such as Sidney and Constance Miller (Alan Alda and Allison Janney) throw celebrity-studded dinner parties in massive Park Avenue apartments, then retreat to the casual luxury of the Hamptons to unwind. The…
Suicide Kings
Will Hollywood cinema never recover from the rise of Quentin Tarantino? Ever since Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer terrorized those coffee shop diners at the start of Pulp Fiction, every hack screenwriter has yearned to be the next “genius” to portray white kids acting like savages. Peter O’ Fallon’s Suicide Kings does that to excess,…
Through a Black Prism: Films and the Future
Tired of blaxploitation in its many guises? Nodding out from Hollywood’s Great White Dope? Then treat your mind to a torrent of stimulation at a one-of-a-kind film festival this Thursday through Sunday, at the Museum of African American History, the Cinema Café and Wayne State University. “Through a Black Prism: Films and the Future” features…
Soul in the Hole
No, this isn’t Hoop Dreams II. Danielle Gardner’s documentary featuring the feats of basketball coach Kenny Jones and his team avoids that award-winner’s American-dream motif to depict the real deal around the courts of the streets. Jones’ team, Kenny’s Kings, blazes a bold tournament season for itself in the summer of 1993, and Gardner’s camera…
The Spanish Prisoner
In The Spanish Prisoner, playwright-filmmaker David Mamet returns to one of his favorite subjects: the way people lie to each other. The title refers to an old con game, one that’s made for a born patsy like Joe Ross (Campbell Scott). Joe works for a shadowy but very powerful corporation, and has invented something Mamet…
