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What Makes Ben Stiller?
Manohla Dargis, October 15, 1998
It is three weeks before the Permanent Midnight opening, two weeks before the MTV awards show. This morning, Stiller flew solo at a 10 a.m.... More>>
What Makes Ben Stiller?
Manohla Dargis, October 15, 1998
One weekend last month, while in Toronto to publicize his latest movie, Permanent Midnight, Ben Stiller gave 35 television interviews and five... More>>
Hot Shit
The higher virtues of blaxploitation
John Patterson, October 15, 1998
It beggars belief that black filmmakers only started to secure a foothold at Hollywood's managerial level about 10 years ago, a full generation... More>>
His Bloody Valentine
John Maybury paints up Francis Bacon
Ernest Hardy, October 15, 1998
The painter Francis Bacon was once quoted as saying that the only portraits he painted were of his friends, because "If they were not my friends,... More>>
Okay Fellas
One Tough Cop does Dirty Harry
F.x. Feeney, October 15, 1998
Bruno Barreto's last film, Four Days in September (released in L.A. earlier this year), was a masterpiece - an unembellished account of a 1969... More>>
Boys to Man
A tale of two worlds, from Cincinnati to the Round Table
Ella Taylor, October 15, 1998
The Mighty, a boy's adventure story for everyone, opens with Cincinnati smokestacks, then sweeps us smartly into Arthurian legend. It's no... More>>
Latin Beat
The Los Angeles Latino Film Festival throws a party
Sandra Hernandez, October 08, 1998
Sitting inside the cramped vinyl booth at the Brite Spot diner on Sunset Boulevard, Rafael Gonzalez laughs as he recalls when, as a kid, he would... More>>
Colonial Life
The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus
Ella Taylor, October 08, 1998
Antz, the suave first collaboration between DreamWorks and the computer-animation outfit PDI, is a charmer, complete with cute critters voiced by... More>>
Forward Into the Past
The terrifying togs of That '70s Show; the retro robots of Rolie Polie Olie
Robert Lloyd, October 08, 1998
Life magazine, the official gazette of our age, has just published, in a handsome, perfect-bound special edition you're sure to treasure for... More>>
Hop Dreams
Passing through the "I" of a needle
Steven Mikulan, September 24, 1998
The rarefied world of the drug addict, like that of the thief, gambler or wartime soldier, is a professional existence whose peculiar realities... More>>
Hypeless in Toronto
Manohla Dargis, September 24, 1998
TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 14 - Midway through the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival, the big news is just how little genuine news, modest or... More>>
Supermom
Carl Franklin's old-fashioned weepie
Ella Taylor, September 24, 1998
Anyone who has watched a close relative die will likely weep buckets over Carl Franklin's new movie, One True Thing. I'm giving away nothing: We... More>>
Real Country
The farmer's life on Frontline; plus Olivier, retrospectively, at MTR
Robert Lloyd, September 24, 1998
The Farmer's Wife, which opens this season's Frontline on PBS, is a thousand-acre documentary that neither details nor examines but rather... More>>
Post Noir
Rounders' John Dahl
Alex McGregor, September 17, 1998
It used to be that John Dahl's films premiered on cable, or went straight to video. His first three pictures - Kill Me Again, Red Rock West, The... More>>
Akira Kurosawa - 1910-1918
F.x. Feeney, September 17, 1998
"At long last," said Akira Kurosawa to the audience at the 62nd Academy Awards, as he picked up his Life Achievement Award, "I am beginning to... More>>
Not a Full House
John Dahl's sleeping beauty
Ella Taylor, September 17, 1998
An air of sobriety hangs over Rounders, as if director John Dahl had resolved to kick his giggly neo-noir habit and go straight, but without... More>>
Sweaty Machines
And smooth Modulations
John Payne, September 10, 1998
Director Iara Lee's Modulations, a feature-length documentary about the evolution of electronic music, is a calm, clear overview of a frenziedly... More>>
Her Name Is Nina Foch
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, September 10, 1998
It's February, and there's a screening at the county museum of a film called My Name Is Julia Ross, in tribute to director Joseph H. Lewis,... More>>
Memorial
To war reporters and Chasen's chili
Robert Lloyd, September 10, 1998
Citizens of L.A.! Weekly readers! You who rail at traffic, who curse the barista too slow with the morning latte, who claim to have no spare... More>>
Orson and His Afterlive
Shanghai's haunted fun
F.x. Feeney, September 03, 1998
"I'm bored," Orson Welles told an interviewer in 1981, "with stories that don't seem to be balanced dangerously." He was looking back at The Lady... More>>
Rave On
Iara Lee's brave new world
Paul Malcolm, September 03, 1998
"You can't take our company very seriously," says documentary filmmaker Iara Lee, starting to laugh. "Because it's named after a drink." The... More>>
Scanners
Bill Plympton's head trip
John Patterson, September 03, 1998
Don DeLillo's White Noise features a miracle drug that literalizes the meaning of words for the user: If someone yells, "Fusillade of bullets!"... More>>
No Easy Pieces
Neil LaBute's sexual healing
Manohla Dargis, August 27, 1998
When did American movies get so sexless? In movie after movie, it's the same: a man, a woman, discreet lighting, no bad angles; as with happy... More>>
Lolita Gets Her Period
Tamara Jenkins' true story
Judith Lewis, August 27, 1998
"I don't understand it. Why don't girls like it when they get big breasts? If I were a girl with big breasts, I'd be happy."Deep in the... More>>
Lather
Softcore's Radley Metzger
David Chute, August 27, 1998
There is no niche in the marketplace today for the kind of movies Radley Metzger used to make: glossy softcore erotic films that built up a head... More>>
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