A promiscuous 20-year-old plunges body and soul into sex, politics and the vagaries of adult life. Meanwhile, the film's crew grapples with the subject matter in behind-the-scenes footage. The sex sceneLena (Nyman) dips her head and offers tender kisses to her boyfriend's sleeping ...
Life’s a gas It’s no accident that the car chase has become one of the foundation stones of popular cinema. Here is everything you could ever require from an action scene distilled into one easy package: speed, intensity, noise, competitiveness, swearing, gunfire, shiny surfaces and things...
The film has great visuals and great music, which really keep you along for the ride. It also gives the Chinese language learner a chance to see life in rural China before the Cultural Revolution modernization and without any of those themes. 12. 明天记得爱上我 (míng tiān jì de ài sh...
It’s the go-word that filmmakers say at the start of every take, as the cast springs to life on camera. Action is the very thing that sets motion pictures apart from still photography, and while it took Hollywood a few decades to figure out what an “action movie” actually was, the...
she wanders around aimlessly to Hot Chocolate’s goopy ’70s funk hit “Every 1’s a Winner.” The film’s eclectic soundtrack mirrors the disparity between Frances’ current life and her goals: The American pop captures her hardscrabble ambition, while the cinematic French fare is the effortle...
Vienna. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater, continue in the same roles, nine years later, now that the two have become a couple with children. The realistic romance continues to focus on the conversations between the two that have carried across a life...
After his second No. 1 US R&B single, 1951’s “I’m In The Mood,” Hooker’s career went into commercial decline only to be revived in the early 60s when the British blues explosion helped put him back in the spotlight and expose his music to a wider audience. A US pop and R&...
the characters enjoy their last night of summer before life and the obstacles of the real world begin. The cars themselves are hardly the stars, but we can’t help but notice them all, from the white ‘56 T-Bird transporting a mystery dream girl (played by Suzanne Somers) in and out ...
“They were being bred by the Morlocks, who had degenerated into the lowest form of life human life… Cannibalism!” Remember the Morlocks from director George Pal’s 1960 adaptation of The Time Machine? The hideous, cave-dwelling creatures, with their glowing eyes and big bellies, were no ...
music videos that veered from faux-verité (that Arthur Baker–assisted, downtown-NYC disco romp in “Confusion”) to abstract AF (the attack-of-the-screen-savers imagery of “Bizarre Love Triangle”). For this highlight of the group’s 1985 album,Low-Life,Demme had them set u...