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Talk about revisionist westerns! Brokeback Mountain is, as far as one can tell, the first movie to trace the course of a homosexual relationship between a pair of saddle tramps, doing so in considerable--if discreetly visualized--detail, from first idyllic rapture to angry rupture some 20 years later...
...Hollywood. Occasionally oppositional, consistently satisfying, and always well put-together, Miramax’s marquee Oscar-bait productions at the very least saved us from the ’80s, in which the only films that could classify as “good” mainstream movies were overblown, revisionist historical epics like “Out of Africa.” And though their films have gotten less impressive (“Cold Mountain,” “Proof”), they at least started something, and now other companies are doing it better—like...
...high stakes too. The band's commitment, to its audience and its music, sanctions and encourages the kind of social concern that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts...
...expecting that some people will say this is just a politically correct view, that this is revisionist history...
...Field can expect some latenight calls. For VN is not only a revision of His Life in Part but a revisionist view of the man and much of his art. The literary icon Field once cryptically defined as a "Russian-American writer of our time and of his own reality" is now called a "great Russian-American Narcissus." Late novels such as Ada and Look at the Harlequins! are seen as works of a "garden-variety egotist." Both books have their share of self-indulgence and preening; neither approaches the level of masterpieces like Lolita and Pale Fire, the last...