Garry Buck and Ron Kaplan/They’ve got the talent.
Tag: Vol. 24 No. 3
Issue of Oct. 27 – Nov. 2, 1994
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The Actor
This 1993 film by the eclectic and talented Iranian Mohsen Makhmalbaf (The Peddler, Marriage of the Blessed) is a contemporary, semitragic farce about a burly film actor who wants to play only in art films but is forced by his family’s economic demands to act in a string of trashy commercial movies. His tormented wife, […]
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Julio Bocca With Ballet Argentino
You may not care for Julio Bocca’s duets with Eleonora Cassano if you’re a ballet puritan–in fact, any kind of puritan at all. Their bastard blend of ballet and tango marries glittering precision with sexual innuendo not customarily found in the ethereal world of ballet: in Dos mundos, the man and woman challenge each other […]
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Love Hate
HOLE METRO, OCTOBER 21 Though all of Courtney Love’s songs, from “Teenage Whore” to “I Think That I Would Die,” have an autobiographical tilt to them, no song title seems to sum up her present predicament better than “Asking for It.” Was she asking for it? Did she ask you nice? Was she asking for […]
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Ambrosio
AMBROSIO, Teatro Vista, at Edgewater Presbyterian Church. Romulus Linney’s darkly rhapsodic drama based on a Gothic thriller from 1795, The Monk, is essentially a potboiler in which the title monk is ruined by a fiendish plot. But Edward F. Torres’s sober 80-minute Teatro Vista staging downplays the camp elements, emphasizing instead the agonies of a […]