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<text id=89TT0007>
<title>
Jan. 02, 1989: Cinema:Best Of '88
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 02, 1989 Planet Of The Year:Endangered Earth
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
CINEMA, Page 94
BEST OF '88
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<p> AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS
</p>
<p> Tragedy awaits, irony abounds in this memoir of friendship
and betrayal in a boarding school during World War II. Without
italicizing a single emotion, French director Louis Malle has
created the year's strongest indictment of the totalitarian mind
and the conformist soul.
</p>
<p> BABETTE'S FEAST
</p>
<p> Cooking is a metaphor for art in Gabriel Axel's wise, deeply
ironic and richly realized adaptation of Isak Dinesen's story.
</p>
<p> BEETLEJUICE
</p>
<p> The feel-weird movie of '88. Director Tim Burton's
supernatural jape features comic-book ingenuity, a swell turn by
Michael Keaton as a punk demon, and a delirious calypso sound
track. Day-O will never sound the same.
</p>
<p> BIRD
</p>
<p> Charlie Parker, genius of modern jazz and modern
self-destruction, is played with easy-gliding perfection by
Forest Whitaker, and director Clint Eastwood re-creates his
world in dark, romantic hues. No false notes, no easy sentiment.
</p>
<p> THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
</p>
<p> In an age of post-Christian facetiousness, Martin Scorsese's
work daringly attempts to restore passion and melodrama to the
Gospel story. Protests notwithstanding, the film is an
affirmation of faith in the power of both the Gospel and the
movies.
</p>
<p> MISSISSIPPI BURNING
</p>
<p> Historical fact, the murder of three civil rights workers in
1964, triggers a fervent historical fiction. Gene Hackman is
canny and powerful as an FBI agent tracking the killers in
director Alan Parker's angry, headlong film.
</p>
<p> PELLE THE CONQUEROR
</p>
<p> An old man and his son on a Danish farm: sweet, stern,
elemental, grand.
</p>
<p> THE SINGING DETECTIVE
</p>
<p> Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by
memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on
TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42
min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format,
a bloody masterpiece.
</p>
<p> TUCKER
</p>
<p> Francis Ford Coppola restores Capraesque would-be capitalist
Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) to legendary life in a
funny-dreamy biography of the can-do automaker who discovered
that prophets often end up without profits when they threaten
the economic establishment.
</p>
<p> WINGS OF DESIRE
</p>
<p> An angel, whose job it is to listen to the cries of human
misery, falls to earth and falls in love. This astringent
romantic fairy tale, from director Wim Wenders and novelist
Peter Handke, imagines a West Berlin languishing in heartache
and itching for spiritual redemption. It's funny too.
</p>
</body></article>
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