Passion Sex: Short Cuts
THE DREAMERS (R21)110 minutesOpens tomorrow BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI'S hedonistic and sexually-charged drama, made by a film buff for film buffs about film buffs, is discourse that teeters between portent and the pretentious.American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is sucked into an erotic triangle with a pair of daring, inordinately close French siblings, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel).He engages in close-quarter debates espousing the holy church of cinema and...
Passion Sex: FREEZE FRAMES
A weekly update of film releases DAYS OF THUNDER - Tom Cruise plays a young man who's born to race automobiles. He gets his chance from a car-struck businessman and a feisty mechanic, disappointingly played by Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall, respectively. He also gets a gorgeous girlfriend who happens to be a brilliant brain surgeon. No kidding. The movie wants to be an action drama, but it's really just a star vehicle of the most rudimentary sort, offering Cruise nothing...
Passion Sex: `Romeo-Juliet' love is put down
Long-term relationships are what we look for, author of article says
Judging by the box-office success of the updated "Romeo and Juliet," GenXers are turning on to the agonies and ecstasies of romantic love.Passion, sex, violence, death - whee! Here we go again.Too bad, says the Utne Reader, whose readers tend to be older, been-around-the-block- but-not-necessarily-wiser baby boomers.The magazine devotes much of its December issue ($4.99) to "The Future of Love," that is, the grown-up variety. Romeo...
Passion Sex: Moving in Memories of Passions
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY. "Diversion of Angels," "Panorama" (excerpts), "Deaths and Entrances" (revival premiere), "Maple Leaf Rag," all choreographed by Martha Graham. Wednesday night at City Center. Varied repertory through Oct. 17. IF ALL THE maddening elements of love, passion, sex and its symbolism intrigue you as much as they do other sane folk, tear right over to City Center for Pearl...