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...tragic-queen-in-love-with-a-straight-ma n cliche. Frankly, it is difficult to see why Diego is so interested in David, who is terribly callous and in the final analysis, rather boring. However, Jorge Perugorria's sensitive portrayal saves Diego from being a mere caricature, and Perugorria certainly makes a much better gay man than William Hurt...
Chan-whose Chinese screen name, Sing Lung, translates as "becoming the dragon"-is so fearless as to seem, by mere human standards, senseless. In Police Story he hitches a ride on a speeding bus by running up from behind, hooking an umbrella handle onto a window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal...
When art first appeared, presumably around 40,000 B.P., it spread quickly. Within a mere 5,000 years-barely the blink of an eye on paleontological time scales-the work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape...
...mere picture of a bison or a woolly rhino tells us nothing much. Suppose, France's Clottes suggests, that 20,000 years from now, after a global cataclysm in which all books perished and the word vanished from the face of the earth, some excavators dig up the shell of a building. It has pointy ogival arches and a long axial hall at the end of which is a painting of a man nailed to a cross. In the absence of written evidence, what could this effigy mean? No more than the bison or rhino on the rock at Chauvet...
...trademark scene from a seductively disturbing film. And while it is hardly new for a movie to be made popular because of its orgies of blood-letting, Reservoir Dogs is different. The pain and death in this movie are not mere two-dimensional ketchup-intensive scenes from a low budget Friday the 13th sequel or romanticized gunfights from the latest Arnold Schwarzenegger flick: Reservoir Dogs, and its sibling in the emerging genre of films such as it and Pulp Fiction being blazed by writer-directors like Tarantino, it on a new level. They are films more than movies...