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...British aren't coming. Three decades after the Beatles led the first British invasion of the American music scene, English rock 'n' roll is about as powerful a cultural force in the States as French cinema. The only British rock band appearing in the Top 40 of Billboard magazine's album charts is Bush-a grungy quartet whose passports may be British but whose lead singer looks and sounds as if he's been hanging out in Seattle coffee bars with Eddie Vedder...
...movies about young people that broke out at this year's Cannes Film Festival. While most of the serious award contenders were meditations on 20th century history, like Theo Angelopoulos' majestic Ulysses' Gaze and Kamir Kusturica's Underground (both set in war-torn Yugoslavia), the main trend was Sociopath Cinema. The parade of teen angst-athons was led by the U.S. film Kids...
DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...
...pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school, soon took care of my woes and secured me a position at the movie theater where he was employed. I began to think that perhaps kismet was leading me down the "Cinema Paradiso" path. And though I felt that I, like those widows in 18th century English novels, had "come down in the world," I accepted...
...that I had the job. Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with real butter...