of a movie and it's been made by people who know the scene inside out the
director of the movie within the movie is played by Steve Buscemi who has been
an independent features by everybody from Scorsese and Jarmusch to Ferrara
and Tarantino and in this scene he's having a very bad day one of those days
when everything goes wrong starting with a hot young star who thinks he has it
all figured out not into that hostess Twinkie hostess Twinkie Hollywood man
you know it's all fluff these are the kind of films I want to be doing hey
thanks man I gotta say I'm really glad you feel that way and I'm excited to be
working with you yeah me too you're a great director man your films are
totally wack that's James LaGrosse there as the whacked out star later he and his
co-star played by Katherine Keener have a lot of trouble getting even one scene
right the movie uses both black and white and color I've always admired you
from afar Mark sounds rather professional well then left how does
that sound sounds like champagne
I've loved you from the moment we met
we were working together I didn't want anything to interfere
God cut there are a lot of little touches that are just right like this
one where a grip wants the star to read his script I thought you might want to
take it hey Bill you see the top of that light there
bring that down about three feet and of course nobody can remember how to work
the smoke machine the movie was directed by Tom DeChilla who also knows the
independent world he was a cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch and
then he directed Johnny Swade starring Brad Pitt who is not he insists the
model for the egotistical young star of living in oblivion now this is a good
idea for a movie and a lot of it does work but the inspiration ends before the
movie does I was also not particularly fond of the idea of the dream sequences
it would have been better maybe to just go ahead and make a straightforward
satire about the strange things that can happen on the set of a low-budget movie I
can't recommend living in oblivion except for people who are curious about
the movie making process and they will like the inside view but it does wear
out it's welcome pretty quickly I think that if they had left the movie set in
other words we have all these jokes about what can go wrong or on then in
the second half of the picture take these characters out into another world
then I think this picture would have startled you because you know where it's
going you know a lot of this stuff and it was like an idea and we'll pull
together some scenes but not a fully written script okay coming up next a
controversial film from India about the infamous bandit Queen but so many pain
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women in modern Indian history born as an illiterate lower caste girl from a
small village she defied two barriers her sex and her social class to become a
folk hero as the leader of her own gang of bandits bandit queen which tells her
story is not an entertainment like Bonnie and Clyde but a relentless
indictment of a social system that allowed her at the age of 11 to be
forcibly married to a man three times her age
escaping from a husband and a marriage that she hates Debbie returns to her
village where every man assumes that all she wants is sex played here by Seema
Biswas she is kidnapped by bandits but in the gang she at last finds a man who
respects her a bandit named Vikram this is an extraordinary scene right here she
wants to kiss him but she hates men so much that she wants to hit him too
Debbie's gang dominated the headlines in India for years until finally in 1983
she was convinced to surrender in an event that turned into a celebration of
her cult status
bandit queen could have been one of those glorifications of a charismatic
outlaw that are so familiar at the movies but it's not it's an indictment
of a system where women have few rights and no one ever takes their word above
that of a man with a hot temper and violent passion Poulan Debbie fought
against that system with the only avenue open to her which was banditry she became
a national heroine because she struck a chord especially with other women this
is an angry film and a fascinating one oh it sure is I mean as we see our
national cinema develop you're gonna be finding people particularly women being
pulled out of history and have their stories be told it's happening all
around the world it's happening with this picture and I agree with you it is
not a celebration of the bandit life it really is an indictment of the struggles
that forced her to be one and so that makes it a much more interesting
straightforward picture does one interesting thing about the film there's
a lot of depiction of the way she was sexually mistreated by men in the film
the Indian censors have banded it can't be shown in India and Poulan Debbie
herself has sued to keep it from being released because she's embarrassed by
this depiction of what happened to her so you say that a lot of people really
don't want the truth to come out for various reasons you know that's
surprising I think she's not being authentic to her experience that that
catches me totally by surprise when we come back a wonderful youthful romance
that virtually no one went to see in theaters here's your second chance our
video pick of the week is next
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before sunrise it never really caught on with a lot of the public it didn't have
big stars or a big advertising campaign behind it but it was charming and truly
romantic telling the story of two college-aged students who meet on the
train in Europe and in one of the great pickup scenes in movie history Ethan
Hawk takes a risk and approaches Julie Delpy just before his scheduled stop in
Vienna all I know is I have to catch an Austrian Airlines flight tomorrow
morning at 930 and I don't really have enough money for a hotel so I was just
gonna walk around and it'd be a lot more fun if you came with me and if I turn out
to be some kind of psycho you know you just get on the next train all right
all right think of it like this I jump ahead 10 20 years okay and you're
married and only your marriage doesn't have that same energy that it used to
have you know you start to blame your husband you start to think about all
those guys you've met in your life and what might have happened if you picked
up with one of them right well I'm one of those guys that's me you know so
think of this as time travel from then to now to find out what you're missing
out on see what this really could be is a gigantic favor to both you and your
future husband to find out that you're not missing out on anything I'm just as
big as losers he is totally unmotivated totally boring and you made the right
choice and you're really happy the two spent an enchanted day and night
together mostly just walking and talking in a beautifully written script by
director Richard link later you know my parents they're still married and I guess
they're very happy but I just think it's an healthy process to rebel against
everything that came before yeah
you know I've been wondering lately do you know anyone who's in a happy
relationship yeah sure you know I know happy couples I think they lie to each
other before sunrise our video pick of the week now let's recap the movies we
reviewed on this show two thumbs up for Amy Hector wings charming comedy smart
comedy clueless starring Alicia Silverstone a split vote on an awfully
big adventure starring Hugh Grant as a cruel controlling theater director Roger
felt the different story threads didn't quite work together I liked its
bittersweet mood and insights into theatrical life two thumbs down for
free willy to the sequel about a young boy in the whale he be friends two
thumbs down for living in oblivion the self-absorbed comedy about the making of
an independent film and finally two thumbs up for the gripping drama bandit
queen about a young Indian woman who fights back against the society that has
abused her all her life so the surprise is clueless that's the real
entertainment oh the insight it has is that you can be like that still be smart
you got that's fun that's it for this week next we'll be back with reviews of
more new movies including the long-awaited science fiction adventure
waterworld starring Kevin Costner and also the net starring Sandra Bullock as
a computer specialist running for her life after she uncovers sensitive
information that's next week and until then the balcony is closed