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T he B arbarian I nvasions
Rereleased due to its recent Oscar nomi
nation (and subsequent win), this sequel to
French-Canadian director Denys Arcand’s
The Decline o f the American Em[)ire, about a
dying man (Rémy Girard) who gathers his
friends together, stands on its own. T h e circle
of Montreal haby bœ m ers ruefully grapples
with the failings of their lives and their gener
ation as evidenced by troubled familial rela
tionships and a decidedly non-utopian society.
— Christopher M cQuain
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a movie-obsessed Parisian trio of twenty-
somethings— young American Matthew
(Michael Pitt of HeduAg and the Angry Inch) and
student-rebel twins Theo (Louis Garrel) and
Isabelle (Eva G reen)— forging their sexual and
political identities during France’s fascinating
political upheavals of 1968. T he film’s polysexu-
al and political conscientiousness is compelling;
Bertoluccis camera is clear-eyed and tender in
its explicit erotic and psychological intimacy.
— CM
O scars : T he R eview
A crowning moment of this year’s Academy
Awards was when director Adam Elliot thanked
his boyfriend in his acceptance speech for Best
Animated Short. But when people cheered it
D irty D ancing :
H avana N ights
Bookish Katey Miller (Rom ola
Garai) visits 1958 Havana with her
family, where she meets the sexy
Xavier (played by Y Tu M amá Tam -
hum’s Diego Luna), from whom she
learns the seduction o f the mamho. But
parents and peers hold her back! Every
time this awful but somehow watch-
able sequel to Dirty Dancing threatens
to become serious, it collapses into the
Katey Questions: W ill the white girl
win the big dance contest? W ill she
fuck Xavier?
T he P assion of the C hrist
— G ary M orris
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was an obligatory sort of
yay, like, “Wow, ycxi
shocked us: a gay
person iq Hollywood.”
(You may have missed
this, o f course, being too
gagged out by Billy Crys
tal’s naked txxJy in the intro
to be capable of going on.)
Equally bland were all those beige-
colored gowns and unrouged lips. It was as if
Julia, Charlize and Naomi called each other the
night before and decided “Band-Aid” was the
black of 2004- Thank the aquamarine goddess
and the Saint o f Real W om en Curves for Scar
lett Johansson and Sam antha Morton.
In a way, the putty-robed superstars were
emblematic of this year’s Oscars, which were all
about emaciated speeches and lackluster jokes.
Take Charlize Theron, our new Best Actress,
who remembered to thank her lawyer but
forgot to thank the real lesbian who inspired
her award-winning lesbian role.
— Meg Daly
T he D reamers
T he latest film from Bernardo
Bertolucci (The Last Emperor) gives us
Try this little experiment if you can’t
keep yourself from going to see homo-
phobic Mel G ibson’s propagandists epic:
Pretend you don’t know anything about
this story or about world religion or about
Mel Gibson. If you do this, it’s kinda inter
esting to witness leadership, persecution
and torture in a certain time and place
through shadowy, brooding imagery with
some fairly decent acting.
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S tarsky & H utch
Everything 7 0 s can be found in this movie
version o f the late cop T V show. T h e re ’s a
disco dance-off, a Ford Grand Torino, Fu
Manchu mustaches. Fortunately, director
Todd Phillips (O ld School) has enough sense
not to make it simply a period parade. Ben
Stiller and Ow en W ilson are, respectively, the
overzealously square Starsky and the slacker
dude H utch, trying to nail a drug dealer
(played with handy villainy by Vince
Vaughn). T his film belongs to the too-good
chemistry between S tiller and W ilson in their
sixth film together. W hy these guys
haven’t gotten hitched— consider
this an invitation to Portland,
boys— is a mystery.
— GM
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