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(11/03/97 11:00am)
Move over Quentin Tarentino, there is a new Golden Boy in town. Paul Thomas Anderson, the 27-year-old writer/director of "Boogie Nights," launches himself onto the scene with his cool, skillful and caring take on the porn industry of the 1970s and early 1980s.
(10/27/97 11:00am)
If you are going to make a teen slasher movie, make sure you have enough characters to keep the carnage moving. You can only almost kill people so many times before the movie feels like a pre-teen television horror show trying not to offend its audience.
(10/20/97 9:00am)
If Satan were to spend his time on earth, he would spend it among those who help let evil walk freely, who put their conscience aside and do whatever it takes to win. He would become a lawyer.
(10/13/97 9:00am)
One would think that if Oliver Stone could turn the lives of two deceased presidents ("JFK," "Nixon") into exciting, operatic cinema, he could make a tale of sex, money and murder in a hot and sweaty desert town jump off the screen. Unfortunately, in his first foray into non-political filmmaking in quite some time, Stone lays it on too thick for too long.
(10/06/97 9:00am)
There is a brief moment in "L.A. Confidential" where a billboard is shown advertising the Los Angeles Police Department as "a job you can be proud of." The rest of this stylish, testosterone-fueled thriller goes about demolishing that claim.
(10/01/97 9:00am)
"But it is summer," you said. "I don't want to think about my aliens. I want to laugh at them, be scared by them or simply watch Will Smith destroy them. I can't be bothered with questions of science, theology and the unifying factors of the universe, I just want to see Harrison Ford kick butt and John Travolta cry."
(09/29/97 9:00am)
Who would have guessed that the year's most uplifting film would be about a group of out of shape men taking all their clothes off to make some quick cash? But that is what we get with "The Full Monty," a small film from Britain which manages to take a lewd idea and turn it into a winning, heartfelt human comedy.
(05/26/97 9:00am)
After a three year hiatus, and an Oscar under his belt, Stephen Spielberg returns to the director's chair. Fortunately for us, the acclaim he received for "Schindler's List" did not go to his head.
(04/28/97 9:00am)
If you ever find yourself in the middle of some disaster area, whether it be a tornado, alien invasion or a lava attack, the trick is to follow the dog. Regardless of how many millions of people are killed, that dog will surely pop out of the debris eventually and start happily licking everyone's face.
(04/21/97 9:00am)
The Dartmouth film community turned out to honor one of its own Friday night in what Dartmouth Director of Film Bill Pence described as the "central event of the film year."
(04/15/97 9:00am)
It reeked of Hollywood.
(03/26/97 11:00am)
The Dartmouth Film Society continues its tradition of bringing diverse and quality cinema to Dartmouth with this term's film series, "The Postmoderns."
(03/03/97 11:00am)
The Black Underground Theater took an often hilarious stab at racial identity and stereotypes this weekend at the Collis Common Ground with their high energy performance of George C. Scott's "The Colored Museum."
(02/24/97 11:00am)
John Hart '75, producer of such Broadway hits as The Who's "Tommy" and "Guys and Dolls," introduced his latest work, "Drunks," in a special screening of the movie on Friday in the Loew Theater.