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marjorie baumgarten 1995 82 results
Sense and Sensibility
Who could have imagined that 1995 would have been such a banner year for Jane Austen? This new film adaptation of Austen's first novel, Sense...
Film Review, Dec. 15, 1995
Wild Bill
Walter Hill presents his personalized take on the legend of Wild Bill Hickok in this new Western. Hill's speculations are hardly the problem here, however....
Film Review, Dec. 1, 1995
Casino
Stone jumps into the deep end with Scorsese made guys, De Niro and Pesci, as the action moves from New York to Vegas, with uneven results.
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1995
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas hits you like a breath of fresh air coupled with a 100-proof chaser. The movie is an amazing, bracing, funny, audacious, tender,...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1995
Public Access
Before there existed The Usual Suspects -- director Bryan Singer's scintillating thriller that's been blasting audiences nationwide to attention over the last few months with...
Film Review, Nov. 17, 1995
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
Adventure movies starring two adolescent girls are hardly commonplace and that, sadly, is virtually the only aspect of Gold Diggers that could be regarded as...
Film Review, Nov. 10, 1995
The Addiction
The movies of Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) are not meant to go down easily, and The Addiction is surely...
Film Review, Nov. 10, 1995
Total Eclipse
This never less-than-fascinating bio-pic recounts the relationship between the two 19th-century French poets, Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (Thewlis). Theirs, of course, was a...
Film Review, Nov. 3, 1995
The Doom Generation
Admittedly, Araki's new feature may not appeal to all tastes, but that does not at all diminish its immediacy and wit. This bloody road movie...
Film Review, Nov. 3, 1995
Home for the Holidays
I wished I liked this movie more than I did. Ironically, that's something of the feeling I think director Foster is trying to capture in...
Film Review, Nov. 3, 1995
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Some stories just write themselves. This fascinating documentary about the life of Leon Theremin is wilder than anything a storyteller might have imagined. The Russian-born...
Film Review, Oct. 27, 1995
Get Shorty
It's said that Hollywood can be a tough and ruthless town, a real killer. Therefore, who better to grab all that bull by the horns...
Film Review, Oct. 20, 1995
Double Happiness
Multiculturalism as a concept is something to which most of us pay lip service, but rarely do we see it actualized -- especially in the...
Film Review, Oct. 13, 1995
An Awfully Big Adventure
Last time out, the combination of director Mike Newell and actor Hugh Grant resulted in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Here, the story...
Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995
Boy
The Austin Film Society calendar lists Otto Prreminger's Carmen Jones as sceening on Tuesday, October 10. They've called to let us know that the listing...
Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995
To Die for
With great wit, humor, and style, this movie serves all America its just desserts and, while the concoction and its ingredients may not kill us,...
Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995
How to Make an American Quilt
How to Make an American Quilt blankets the audience with warm and fuzzy sentiments. In most ways, it's a nice enough movie. My problems with...
Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995
Bandit Queen
This Indian movie, in Hindi with subtitles, is a fascinating work for a number of reasons. The story is based in the true-life saga of...
Film Review, Sep. 29, 1995
Moonlight and Valentino
Perhaps it's only because both films are awkwardly titled and share in the presence of Whoopi Goldberg, but Moonlight and Valentino, more than once, brings...
Film Review, Sep. 29, 1995
Femme Douce, Une
Bresson's 1969 film is reportedly one of his best. It must also be one of his most unusual since it was shot in color and...
Film Review, Sep. 29, 1995
Safe
Carol's life is killing her, or so it seems. But, maybe it's just her new couch. That's how the problem first became noticeable. As portrayed...
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
Arabian Knight
This new animated tale is directed by Richard Williams, an Oscar-winner for his creative work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Other examples of his animation...
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
Balthazar
The Austin Film Society has quietly been celebrating its 10th anniversary with a year-long retrospective of some of their favorite films from programs past. Every...
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
Showgirls
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' flimsy and illogical story about Vegas showgirls is a sad excuse for this prurient and purulent tale that nevertheless has its cult adherents.
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
Unstrung Heroes
Young Steven Lidz (Watt) is baffled by some of the things that lately have been going on between his parents in his early 1960s Jewish...
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
Tie-Died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans
What could be more timely than a film about the Grateful Dead's camp followers, the Deadheads who follow the band from location to location and...
Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995
The Usual Suspects
A modern classic with style to burn.
Film Review, Sep. 1, 1995
Desperado
During its opening moments, Desperado announces itself as an action picture that demands to be watched, if not for its hyperkinetic staging and riveting fusillade...
Film Review, Aug. 25, 1995
The Jar
We're told that there is a flourishing film movement afoot in Iran. Unfortunately, few of these works make it to these shores. Thus, the screening...
Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995
The Net
The Net is the first of several new movies that tap into the growing national fear of becoming roadkill on the information highway. No one...
Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995
Hong Kong Graffiti
This 1995 Hong Kong film kicks off The New Far Eastern Film Series sponsored by the Cinema Differentia Company and the Dobie Theatre. The six-week...
Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995
Bulletproof Heart
Director Mark Malone makes an impressive debut with this modern film noir about a hit man who falls in love with his victim. This cold-blooded...
Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995
Rebel Without a Cause
If you haven't ever seen this Nicholas Ray/James Dean classic in widescreen … trust me, you've never really seen it. It's been 40 years since James Dean essayed his quintessential role in as a troubled American teen and, along with co-stars Wood and Mineo, established an iconography of adolescence whose potency extends into the present. Ray, who told stories that were "bigger than life" and pulsing with "hot blood," was one of the most dynamic directors of the American screen and his capacity to tell a widescreen story was as articulate as his ability to pinpoint an individual stuck "in a lonely place."
Film Review, Jul. 28, 1995
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
At first glance, the plot of Incredibly True Adventure couldn't be more prosaic; teen love traumas are a film industry staple and our familiarity with...
Film Review, Jul. 28, 1995
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Just as every boy thrives best when he has a family to belong to, so too does every whale. That was the lesson of Free...
Film Review, Jul. 21, 1995
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
By what justice can Steven Seagal, an absolute unknown until just a few years ago, claim to be a major movie star? As a screen...
Film Review, Jul. 21, 1995
The Myth of the Male Orgasm
I'd love to announce that The Myth of the Male Orgasm is a new documentary -- cutting edge, of course -- but, alas, it's not...
Film Review, Jul. 21, 1995
Scorta, La
With a plot practically ripped from the pages of contemporary newspapers, this Italian political thriller uses that country's internal corruption and intrigue as the landscape...
Film Review, Jul. 14, 1995
Crumb
R. Crumb: master cartoonist of the underground comix world. Even if you're not familiar with his name, I guarantee you're familiar with some of his...
Film Review, Jun. 30, 1995
Smoke
As beguiling and as ephemeral as its titular namesake, Smoke is a movie that draws you in and lingers a while in your bloodstream. It's...
Film Review, Jun. 30, 1995
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