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...after spending grant money on rearing his dysfunctional children, he is forced to present his findings on the "undiscovered" New Guinea tribe that he was supposed to have used the money to study. The resulting mess that follows is a formulaic farce filled with poor acting, an even poorer script and obnoxious, one-dimensional characters with barely anything sympathetic about them. Occasionally, the film tries to get warm and sweet, but concludes with a contrived and impossible ending. Leaving the theatre, one cannot help feeling that Touchstone Pictures took a cue from Krippendorf and his false tribe by stealing ticket...
...this slightly flawed--yet worth-seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and makes it shine. --Marc Resteghini...
...irritating. This is, however, no fault of the actors, who are probably the best thing about the film. Vanessa Redgrave is Vanessa Redgrave and, as the lynchpin of the story, holds center stage with her usual poise. There's much to admire about this adaptation--the faithfulness of the script, the sensitive direction, the first-rate acting--but in the end it's just not enough to add up to a successful transference from novel to film. One comes away from this film with the feeling that it doesn't cut much ice with Virginia Woolf. Which gives this...
...movie must end, director James Cameron drains the tension by framing the story of the Titanic through the eyes of Rose (Kate Winslet), who tells about her romance with the impoverished passenger Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). The two run the events of normal cinematic romance, and Cameron's script presents the lead actors with incredible cliches. Each of the other characters represents a segment of society rather than a person. As the ship breaks apart and its passengers choose between life and death, Titanic achieves an epic grandeur that the film may not deserve. Overall, the film is a pyrrhic...
Ironically, the Lewinsky scandal may enable the Democrats to get through the '98 elections following the usual script of rallying around the leader and demonizing his accusers. These tactics might even be enough to elect Gore in 2000. But, of course, this would only postpone addressing the problem. Eventually, a day of reckoning will come. As republicans solidify their control over Congress and state governments across the country, Democrats will have to fill their empty shell of a party with clearly-articulated principles and solutions--or risk getting crushed for many Novembers to come...