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Cry-Baby (The Director's Cut)
»rank: 2690
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:John Waters's goofy, 1990 comedy about a Baltimore girl (Amy Locane) who can't decide if she should remain 'good' in her 1954 world or hang out with the motorcycle boys is funny in a scene-by-scene way, but doesn't quite gel into the grand piece the director was hoping for. The cast is exceptionally likable, however, including Johnny Depp as an Elvis type and lggy Pop as a chattering loony. The best material is set in a fringe world of bikers and losers on the outskirts of town, and ...
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Malcolm X
»rank: 15448
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. lt seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by 0scar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as 'Detroit Red' to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik ...
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American Ninja (Widescreen)
»rank: 16519
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. lt seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by 0scar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as 'Detroit Red' to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik ...
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Billy Bathgate (Widescreen)
»rank: 15066
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The oily allure of underground power is compelling. During the heyday of New York's mob scene, it was more than a mysterious, dynamic draw, it was a ticket out of poverty and stepping stone to notoriety. Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate is the story of a street-smart boy (Loren Dean) who, after a chance encounter with racketeering kingpin Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman), sets out to apprentice himself to the Mafia and ride the roller-coaster life of a gangster. Central to the story development is the ...
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Citizen Cohn
»rank: 21172
Chroniques et points de vue:From :James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HB0 biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AlDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe ...
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Sudden Death (Full Screen)
»rank: 25350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HB0 biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AlDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe ...
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Sudden Death
»rank: 25350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HB0 biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AlDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe ...
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Iron Maze
»rank: 25350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HB0 biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AlDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe ...
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Sudden Death
»rank: 25350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :James Woods seems to find his most adventurous roles in television movies, particularly this made-for-HB0 biography of the late lawyer and powerbroker Roy Cohn. A hallucinatory, impressionistic look at his career and life, the film is comprised of flashbacks by Cohn, who is seen dying of AlDS in 1988 in his New York hospital bed. Woods sinks his teeth deeply into the role of the shark-like Cohn, capturing his arrogance and his insecurity, both at his own Jewishness and his deeply closeted homosexuality, even as he rides Sen. Joe ...
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True Colors
»rank: 25350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is a by-the-numbers tale of political chicanery and fallen idealism, but it works because of several strong performances. James Spader and John Cusack play law-school pals whose college idealism quickly falls away once they reach the real world. Playing against type, Spader is the straight arrow who goes on to work for the Justice Department. Cusack is the slippery conniver who parlays a job as an aide to an aging senator (Richard Widmark) into a springboard to elective office, all the while cutting corners, compromising his integrity, and ...
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