European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Home entertainment billboard s top 10 videocassette rentals 1 the silence of the lambs Orion Home video 2 Robin Hood Prince of thieves Warner Home video 3 fantasia Walt Disney Home video 4 Bac draft Mca Universal Home video 5 the godfather part Iii Paramount Home video 6 class action Fox video 7 dances with wolves Orion Home video 8 what about Bob Touchstone Home video 9 switch Hob video 10 Madonna truth or dare live Home video the top 10 to shows in America Lor nov. 1117, according to the . Nielsen co. Year to Date ranking or an x Tor first time showing is in parentheses 1 2 60 minutes lbs 2 1 Roseann 3 18 full House 4 3 Murphy Brown lbs 5 6 coach 6 4 cheers 7 10 murder she wrote lbs 8 18 movie in a child a name lbs 9 x nil monday night football 10 11 unsolved mysteries Orion Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins Star in the thriller the silence of the lambs. \ Idio r i \ Liws the silence of the lambs. 1991. Orion Home video. Rated r. Suspense fully directed by Jonathan Demme this deliciously horrific adaptation goes far beyond the lurid text of Thomas Harris bestseller to become a mesmerizing retelling of Beauty and the beast. At its most compelling it Isnit merely a taut thriller but an unsettling tango Between a tender Fri trainee and an unspeakably dangerous Sociopath. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins vividly portray Clarice Starling an agent on the Trail of a serial killer and Hannibal a the Cannibal Lect or the cunning if demented psychiatrist who helps her get her Man. Locked away in a Hospital for the criminally insane Lecter apparently misses not Only eating but treating his patients. And to that end he talks Clarice into a Creepy game of quid pro quo hell Trade information about the psychology of her serial killer in Exchange for revelations about her innermost self. While not the Garden variety Bond Between Holmes and Watson it works in its visceral Way and Clarice Homes in on her prey a Sicko who kills then flays his female victims. Under demmers direction the tone is not gruesome but clinical and often compassionate. The silence of the lambs does have its Groslier moments but mostly it relies on time proven methods of disturbing us from woozy camera angles to spooky sounds to freudian subtext. Rita Kempley the Washington Post Bac draft. 1991. Mca Universal. Rated r. Flames Raee and explode in Ron Howard s film named for the backward blast of some blazes. As firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin Man the hoses with name players a Robert de Niro Donald Sutherland Jennifer Jason Leigh a in supporting roles. But the fires provide the momentum. Howard a effectively pumped up style relies on some heavy directorial artillery soaring music hand held camera work 360-degree circular shots glistening beads of water spraying in slow motion. Janet Maslin the new York times . Warshawski. 1991. Hollywood. Rated r. Kathleen Turner is a sexy sardonic private Eye who might have made More of an Impact if there had been More of a film behind her. As it is . For very inquisitive has a Breezy plot to work with but is left stranded in a drab Chicago setting with a supporting cast that though Good enough in its own right nevertheless makes this a movie that is itself a lot less glamorous than Turners performance. Maslin spartacus. I960. Mca Universal. Rated pg-13. With scenes added and the film superbly restored Stanley Kubrick a ponderous Saga lumbers along in the grand manner audiences loved in the late 1950s. Kirk Douglas leads a slave revolt played out on vast battlefields manned by 5, x 0 extras and in the roman Senate where Crassus Laurence Olivier and gracchus Charles Laughton manipulate uprisings and colleagues with wonderfully snotty disdain. Peter Ustinov won an Oscar As Best supporting actor for his performance As a Trainer of gladiators. Written by Dalton Trumbo spartacus is primarily notable for Kubrick a direction. Brought in As a substitute Kubrick never liked the film but his stylistic Hallmarks Are still occasionally discernible in the midst of All that muscle flexing Kitsch. Maslina sunday novt Milr 24, 1991
