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In 1982 Beineix attracted 15 minutes of overattention with his emptily stylish Diva. A year later he stubbed his ego on the contumely of critics when his next film, The Moon in the Gutter, was hooted out of the Cannes Film Festival. Both films were arias of adolescent male obsession...
These days Chinese students like to retell the fable of a prince named She who was fond of dragons. The prince had pictures of the mythical beasts on his walls and carved on the pillars of his house. One day a real dragon heard about the prince's obsession. But...
For God's sunniest slave, a film of sensuous austerity. Alain Cavalier's biography plays the incidents in Therese's life as terse vignettes. The background is a spare, off-white wall. There are no raised voices or unnecessary gestures. Here stark 19th century mysticism meets skeptical 20th century minimalism...
Some American mystery writers pay homage to the past masters of the craft by setting their stories in Britain. The most prominent is Martha Grimes, a sometime teacher of fiction at Johns Hopkins, who ironically was unable to get her work published in Britain until now. Her current offering, I...
Reagan's foreign policy has been distinguished by an obsession with opposing communism--and anything that vaguely resembles it--whenever and wherever possible. That monomania was ostensibly motivated by a concern for democracy, but if so the President, like Ahab, was led astray by his obsession. The confidence that he...