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Another elective worth shopping in the VES department is VES 157r: "American Cinema." Taught by Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies Charles Warren, the class is a survey of American films from Charlie Chaplin's silent pictures to the modern works of directors such as Robert Altman. Students will be taught the art of writing film analysis...
...things we talked about' he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, 'things she wanted to do -- then she ups and dies. I don't wanna go out like that.' With Shakur?s death, Hollywood lost part of its own dream to become a robust rainbow cinema. GRIDLOCK'd gives a taste of what the movies are going to miss...
...such stage Evitas as Elaine Paige and Patti LuPone. But she worked with a vocal coach in New York City, and Lloyd Webber helped by lowering the score a few keys. "She doesn't claim to have the biggest voice," he says, "but theater isn't the same as cinema. If you had done the score exactly as it was in the theater, it might have gotten very wearing...
...Chungking Express By the time Americans finally catch up with Hong Kong cinema--since the mid-'80s the world's most turbulent and entertaining--it may have been suffocated by the censorious new lords from the mainland. So Wong Kar-wai's kicky art movie about two cops on the night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn...
...review of the new film star Trek: First Contact [CINEMA, Nov. 25], Richard Corliss showed once again that he fails to appreciate the talents of the original Trek cast. He writes about Patrick Stewart's performance in the new movie: "Here is real acting! In a Star Trek film! From the successor to William Shatner!" Corliss has not yet learned to fear the wrath of the original "classic" Trekkers. It was not necessary for him to offend a pop-culture icon like Shatner in order to glorify the talent of his progeny. CAROLE N. SHIRK Leola, Pennsylvania...