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- Dec. 31, 1990: Cinema:Best Of '90
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 31, 1990 The Best Of '90
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- CINEMA, Page 43
- BEST OF '90
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- <body>
- <p> Cinema Paradiso. A little boy in a small Italian town serves
- as acolyte to the keeper of the flame--the projectionist in
- the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe
- Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at
- memory.
- </p>
- <p> Cyrano de Bergerac. Moonlit idealism and moonstruck love,
- dashing swordplay and flashing wordplay, bold intelligence and
- bustling spectacle...And the winner is--by more than a
- nose--Gerard Depardieu.
- </p>
- <p> Dick Tracy. Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn
- comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only
- a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick
- with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe,
- blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served up with style.
- </p>
- <p> Edward Scissorhands. Spooky-cute Johnny Depp and Winona
- Ryder--they look like the figures on a Transylvanian wedding
- cake--make ideally mismatched lovers in Tim Burton's witty
- fable, in which a sweet-souled alien comes to suburbia, makes
- a few friends and scurries back home. E.T., meet E.S.
- </p>
- <p> GoodFellas. Martin Scorsese's Mafia wiseguys rob decent
- folks, kill crippled kids, snort and sell coke--and have a
- swell time together--in this dark farce that blazes through
- its 2 1/2 hours like a hit man on a contract high.
- </p>
- <p> Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. Bleakly dispassionate,
- wrenchingly violent, John McNaughton's study of anonymous
- psychopathy is a scary and scarring experience.
- </p>
- <p> Internal Affairs. The year's best urban action film--cool,
- smart and heartless--is also a moral tale about the infinitely
- corruptive power of sexual attraction. Richard Gere's
- performance as a good cop gone rancid is a marvel of
- slipperiness.
- </p>
- <p> Misery. In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a
- romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while
- he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan"--alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner
- proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness.
- </p>
- <p> The Nasty Girl. Michael Verhoeven's exuberant, stylish
- satire, based on recent fact, examines the lingering shadow
- Nazism casts across Germany and the obsessive determination of
- one teenager to expose it. As the anti-Nazi girl, Lena Stolze
- is impish, imperious, utterly adorable.
- </p>
- <p> Postcards from the Edge. Hollywood has so much fun hating
- itself that the venom can taste like fine wine. Carrie Fisher
- puts plenty of savory laughs into her, well, perhaps slightly
- autobiographical script, and under Mike Nichols' direction,
- Meryl Streep parades her dazzling comedic gifts; she adds spin
- and sizzle to every bon mot.
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