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BACKBEAT

By | December 2000

FILM THREAT’S TRIBUTE TO THE MOVIES OF ROCK! In the end, “Backbeat” is the arty telling of the story. It’s just as interested in the German existential art movement as it is in the Beatles…

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BACKBEAT

"I'm not angry sister. I'm fucking desperate." It's pretty hard not to be fascinated by the Beatle's Hamburg, Germany period. Lore would have it that it...

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JAILHOUSE ROCK

"In 'Jailhouse Rock,' he was everything Rockabilly's about. I mean he was mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he didn't give a fuck about nothing...

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YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO…)

Edward Yang's family drama may boast an epic (173 minutes) running time, but its focus is decidedly small-scale and intimate, centering around a single...

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SNATCH

Fans of Guy Ritchie's 1998 cult fave "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" will be happy to learn that shacking up with Madonna and siring her a son have...

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O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

If you want to get your typical film geek riled up, an easy method is to bring up the movies of the Coen brothers. Most people can't agree on the merits of...

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CLEOPATRA'S SECOND HUSBAND

You know, with a title like "Cleopatra's Second Husband," it's not always so easy to tell what it means. After all, the movie's set in present-day Los...

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QUILLS

The thought that most immediately comes to mind with the mention of the Marquis de Sade is that of sex -- not just any sex, but the kinkiest acts of...

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THE HOLLAND AVENUE BOYS

Who are the eponymous Holland Avenue Boys of Howard Fischer's documentary? Well, back in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s, they were a group of nice...

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THE KIBBLES AND BITS OF HELLO-RAMA

As I'm not sure which are more exhausted, my eyes or my ears, another good name for "The Kibbles and Bits of Hellorama" might just be "sensory overload."...

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STATES OF CONTROL

"The man always cooks the meat," states Lisa's smug, vaguely condescending husband Abel (Stephen Bogardus). Surrounded by such smothering attitudes, it's...

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