Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to go home. Relax. Work on Wall Street. Sleep. Reread that sourcebook article you found so fascinating the first time. Like the sagacious Run in the Run-DMC film Krush Groove, you're breakin...
...film's tempo comes from '80s MTV, the story is straight '40s MGM. Like On the Town, Earth Girls sets three naive voyagers down in a bustling American fun world (the San Fernando Valley) for 24 hours of dance and romance. This is, after all, a love story about people from two different worlds. Or, as Davis explains to Goldblum, "You're an alien and I'm from the Valley. We may not even be anatomically correct for each other...
Certainly the challenge of recapturing that spirit on film seems to have tranquilized Russell. His imagery is more confident, less feverish, but no less potent than it has been in years. Perhaps that is because it is once again enlisted in the service of a story worth telling, ideas worth thinking about and a life worth caring about...
...Palestinian uprising is now 18 months old. It is a stain on a country whose existence is grounded in protection against totalitarian abuse. If the case for "Rage" is right, then we could all learn something from the public viewing of the film...
Documentary film is vivid, emotional and personal. "Days of Rage" is no doubt going to move people; films have that tendency. But to claim that any controversial piece of expressive work is propaganda and, therefore, censorable is simply wrong...