December 20, 2006
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Continued from previous entry...
Spike"For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross."
-- Thomas Pynchon
"Also on the card is Adrien Brody ('The Thin Red Line') as a poseur
proto-punk who lives in his parents' converted garage and strips at an
underground gay club. He takes heat from his former friends-- the
aforementioned neighborhood toughs-- for affecting an English accent
and wearing a mohawk...."-- Rob Blackwelder review of Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" (1999)
"With its white community focus, Summer of Sam is something of
a departure for Lee. But with its immaculate script, faultless
acting and Lee's own cameo performance, it is a typical Spike
Lee film. Plenty of rapid-fire, wise-cracking dialogue and hectic
crowd scenes make it fraught with tension from beginning to end.
Hectic, inventive, gritty, witty, edgy and provocative, no detail
is too small to escape Lee's attention and no issue too large
as the film's perceptive dissection of human nature moves effortlessly
between humour and horror."
"At another end of the sexual confusion spectrum, there's Vinny's
childhood friend, now turned spiky-haired punk rocker, Ritchie
(Adrien Brody). Recently he's started dating Ruby (Jennifer
Esposito), erstwhile neighborhood tramp. They are both redeemed
by their relationship, which at least at first, involves no sex,
technically. Where Vinny struggles with his culturally instilled
madonna-whore complex, Ritchie's just back from a stint living in
the Village, looking for an identity that's distinct from his
Italian gotta-be-macho upbringing. Eventually, he gets a gig at
CBGB's ('How do you spell that?' wonders Vinny), but in order to
make ends meet (and pay for his new guitar), he's dancing and
turning tricks at Male World, a decrepit gay club where he
performs fellatio with a life-sized dummy on stage, and, you
assume, with clients offscreen."-- Cynthia Fuchs revew (title: "Sex and the City")
"I watched Halle Berry wipe her mouth off after Adrien Brody, in the
heat of his excitement, laid the lip-lock on her for five full
excruciating seconds. She was stunned, and seemed to have no idea what
had happened to her. I'll tell you what happened, Halle: it's called
sexual assault."
The Kiss...
Where's the Oscar
for the mouth-wipe?
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