April 26, 1996

Volume 15, Number 34

Screens

Film Reviews

The Celluloid Closet

This award-winning 1995 movie, based on Vito Russo's 1981 book, delightfully debunk the widely held belief that images of gays and lesbians were absent in Hollywood movies.

Celtic Pride

Chungking Express

Lovelorn street cops in Hong Kong find romance amid explosions of color and rushes of impressionistic motion

The Flower of My Secret

This florid film comes across like Almodóvar riffing on Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Douglas Sirk's (Imitation of Life). The story about a writer who is dissatisfied with her life marks the return of Almodovar's dark, delicious humor.

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