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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Breakfast on Pluto Neil Jordan's latest film is unlike any of his others, although it does have in common with them an awareness of the political and social issues of its time. As in his outstanding 1996 Michael Collins starring Liam Neeson, the issues are the Irish troubles. In the 1960s and '70s, bombings, riots, repression and sectarian violence erupted between the Irish Republican Army, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the British Army and loyalist paramilitaries. And as in his 1992 blockbuster, The Crying Game, Jordan shows how the Northern Ireland conflict invades the lives of even apolitical characters, in this instance a lad also considered a social misfit, a transvestite. . Read more... Casanova This buoyant confection is a Renaissance romance, an unlikely tale of passionate love that grows between two unsuitable people: he a man pursued by many women and wed to none, she a virtuous literary woman and feminist who needs no man, least of all Giacomo Casanova, the amorous. Read more... Raising Flagg Indie film Raising Flagg is the brain child of Eugene resident Neal Miller, carried by Neal and Nancy Miller and birth-assisted by playwright Dorothy Velasco. Cast in Portland and shot in several small communities west of the city, Raising Flagg is family story of struggle, strife and surprise. Filmed during a wet Oregon winter, the film looks like home to my Northwestern eyes. Read more...
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