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Thursday, Feb. 10, — Shelton-Mason County Journal — Page A—1 9
Offbeat romantic moViesthat are underrated — part 2,
few days remain be-
fore Valentine’s Day,
0 since we gave you
six films last week, here are
. eight more, so you can enjoy
14 offbeat romantic movies
through Feb. 14.
’Pump up
the Volume’
, . Christian Slater is an
anonymous, foul—mouthed pi-
rate radio DJ who can’t work
up the nerve to speak Out as
provocatively in his, daily life
as a high school Student and
new kidin town, until he con-
nects with an inquisitive and
insightful classmate, played
by Samantha Mathis, who’s
written him filthy letters as
an adoring and equally de—
praved fan.
While the film’s profanity
and unsubtle political'state-
ments are confrontational,
its more low-key moments
depict the teen- years as a
paradoxical period of shared
loneliness, with even its bold-
est characters hiding behind
microphones, telephones
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IN THE
. DARK REVIEWS
and handwriting to give
voice to What they can’t say
face-to—face.
This 1990 film showcases
what’s still the best acting
performance of Slater’s ca-
reer, and in an era of perva-
sive social media and online
discourse, its portrayal of the
communal yet faceless isola-
tion of adolescence remains
as relevant as ever.
’L.A. Story’
This 1991 film aspired to
be a singular sendup of all
the narcissistic absurdities of
Los Angeles in the late ’803
to early ’90s, with Steve Mar-
tin presiding over its broad
satire with a droll touch.
But somewhere along the
way, it becomes an affecting
and even spiritual explora-
tion of what it means to love
someone.
Martin’s character is tired
of his meaningless life as a
“wacky” TV meteorologist
in a city so sunny it renders
weathermen useless, until
he starts receiving messages
from a freeway traffic sign
that seem to be life advice
specifically intended for him.
Sarah Jessica Parker elic—
its big laughs as a shame-
lessly shallow young model
named “SanDeE*” (yes, with
that exact spelling, capital—
ization and a “star at the
end”) with Whom Martin
hooks up. But we see his M
plaintive yearning for some-
thing more profound with a
London journalist played by
Victoria Tennant (his real-life
wife at the time), all while
we’re treated to the ethereal
music of Enya and observa-
tions such as, “A kiss may not
be the truth, but it is what
we wish were true.”
‘Dead Again'
Hey, it’s Kenneth Branagh
and Emma Thompson back
when they were a celebrity
power couple, with Derek J a- '
cobi in a supporting role
in a film that’s not 3 Shake-
speare adaptation? And is
that a random appearance by
Robin Williams? What’s go—
ing on?
“Dead Again” is a head-trip
of a neo-noir murder mystery,
complete withamnesia, hyp-
nosis, reincarnation, memo—
ries of past lives and the re-
curring imagery of lethal scis-
sors, but for all its plot twists
" and red herrings, its central
questions are these:
I Are our fates determined?
Are our underlying natures
fixed (and therefore unfix-
able)? If two souls have
fallen in love before, can
they change how things will
work out between them in
their next lives? 01' are they
doomed to repeat the same
tragic outcomes?
I won’t spoil the plot of this
1991 supernatural psychodra-
ma, despite its age, because
its constant switchbacks will
keep new viewers on their
toes. Branagh, Thompson and
Jacobi all lend the proceed-
ings an outsized operatic air,
and Williams is morbid, and
laugh-out-loud hilarious, in a
role that feels like his char~
acter just accidentally wan—
dered onto set from a differ-
ent film.
’True Romance’
Christian Slater returns
to this list as a Detroit comic
bookstore clerk who has hal-
lucinatory conversations with
Elvis (played by an obscured
but unmistakable Val
Kilmer), but it’s Patricia Ar-
quette who steals the show,
and our hearts, as a Tallahas—
see call girl named Alabama.
After the cutest of 1993’s
cinematic meet—cutes, our
couple hits the road to unload
a suitcase full of drugs from
Alabama’s dead pimp and
stay'one step ahead of the
see REVIEW, page A420
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