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sex, lies, and videotape 1989
Solid, well-paced examination of four characters' relations to intimacy. The highlight of the film has to be James Spader, who completely sells Graham Dalton, the highlight of the script: this kind of guilt-ridden, ever-curious loner type who, setting aside the way he inverts control (& thus accountability) in his sexual encounters, actually ages incredibly well into a contemporary context. His development is the most moving and is a result of Spader's appreciation of Dalton's sensitive characterization per Soderbergh's script. On…
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On the Silver Globe 1988
Part historical materialism, part parking garage space opera, part footage of 1986 Poland set to the narration of a parking garage space opera; *On the Silver Globe* acts as the spiritual predecessor to Pathologic told through the histrionics of theatre. What experience does this make for a screening? Perhaps not exactly what the director – a rather intense and serious man if his filmography and the final scene of this film are to suggest anything – intends with the picture.…
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