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1996 Stories by Peter Rainer

• Actors Sharp, Film Flat

  published December 26, 1996

  When we first see the character of middle-aged Australian David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) in Shine, he's standing in the driving rain and tapping... More >>

• Don't Cry for Me, Donna Karan

  published December 26, 1996

  A famous movie composer once told me a joke: Two songwriters are sitting around and one of them says to the other, "I just saw the most amazing... More >>

• What Price Allegory?

  published December 19, 1996

  Why a movie of The Crucible now? Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witchcraft trials was first staged on Broadway in 1953, when McCarthyism was... More >>

• Burton's Blooey Period

  published December 12, 1996

  Forget Independence Day. If you really want to see Earth get it, you can't do any better than Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! It's a destructo orgy... More >>

• Cape Fur

  published November 28, 1996

  In the post-Babe era, can you make a live-action movie about animals and not have them talk to each other? For me, this is the deep philosophical... More >>

• Richard III, Al Too

  published November 7, 1996

  Looking for Richard is Al Pacino's shaggy, nutty, wheedling documentary about a staging of Shakespeare's Richard III and the art of performance.... More >>