Word: films
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where for decades he lived in an apartment overlooking the exercise yard of a prison. In such plays as Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape; in novels, including Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable; in verse and essays and the script for a wordless Buster Keaton film, Beckett distilled despair...
Raging Bull (1980). Realism so intense it transcends and transforms the ugly banalities of boxer Jake La Motta's life. The talents of Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese turn the film into a crazy-angry vision of the American Lower Depths...
...Purple Rose of Cairo (1985). The middle film in Woody Allen's splendid trilogy about American celebrity dreaming. It shares Zelig's technical and narrative virtuosity and Radio Days' insinuating nostalgia, but suffuses them with a unique spirit -- a sort of cautionary romanticism...
Prizzi's Honor (1985). John Huston's favorite country was the social margin, where improbable characters pursue impossible dreams. A hit man (Jack Nicholson) and a hit moll (Kathleen Turner) seek love and find death in a film that deliciously combines operatic emotions and black comedy...
Crime Story (NBC, 1986-88). Producer Michael Mann brought a flashy film-noir style to TV in Miami Vice, then perfected it in this brooding, operatic underworld drama. And Anthony Denison, as gangster Ray Luca, created the TV villain who, along with J.R. Ewing, loomed as the decade's most memorable...