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...need a second viewing to appreciate the subtle artistry of the web Toto weaves around a man to whom "nothing ever happened." So see the movie, then stay and see it again. Some of life's, and the cinema's, most beautiful moments deserve to be relived immediately...
Basic Instinct is the latest candidate for admission to this inner circle of the cinema's damned. Its script was bought for a record $3 million, and people immediately started saying nothing could be that good. Then location shooting was disrupted by gay activists claiming the film promoted a cruel stereotype -- that lesbians are literally man killers. Finally, when the picture was finished, it was slapped with an NC-17 rating. After a few cuts (less than a minute's worth) and many hot words, that was changed to an R, but such wrangles usually do irreparable box-office harm...
Shadows and Fog is most obviously an exercise in style, a beautifully made tribute to the expressionistic cinema of 1920s Germany. It's all here: a homicidal maniac stalking the menacing night streets of a nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
...CINEMA Basic Instinct goes wrong, but not for the reasons you think...
...Watching Cinema Paradiso frustrated me so much, that part when they have all the kisses spliced in, because I realized no matter how much I do, I will never shoot an original kiss, because they've all been done, look at them, they're right there. Kissing is a whole other thing. Usually, there's a lot more interest in subtlety, something that's held back...