Denise Calls Up
Denise Calls Up 1996, PG-13, 82 min. Directed by Hal Salwen, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Tim Daly, Caroleen Feeney, Dan Gunther, Dana Sheeler Nicholson, Liev Schreiber, Aida Turturro, Allana Ubach, Sylvia Miles. At first glance, Denise Calls Up appears to be one long, facile, trendy, overextended cinematic gimmick — a tale of…
Heaven’s Prisoners
Heaven’s Prisoners 1996, R, 132 min. Directed by Phil Joanou, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Alec Baldwin, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kelly Lynch, Teri Hatcher, Eric Roberts, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Badja Djola. I like Alec Baldwin. Really I do. So, it hurts me every time he appears in messy, scattershot films like this one. I’m…
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible 1996, PG-13, 108 min. D: Brian De Palma; with Tom Cruise, Jon Voight. The television series Mission: Impossible was heady, trippy stuff in the late Sixties — brilliant disguises and calculated deceits, all to a signature musical theme that urgently evoked intrigue. Its characters relied on their wits to pull off intricately planned…
Costa Brava
Costa Brava 1994, NR, 92 min. Directed by Marta Balletbó-Coll, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Marta Balletbó-Coll, Desi Del Valle, Montserrat Gausachs, Josep Maria Brugues, Sergi Schaaff, Joaquim Remolins Casas. Costa Brava (titled “family album” in English, is nothing if not a labor of love for its director and star Marta Balletbó-Coll. The…
Dead Man
Jarmusch’s elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.
