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Apr 22, 1988 · The New York Times Archives. ... ''Stormy Monday,'' which opens today at the Embassy 72d Street and the Gemini, tells its story very well (Mr. Figgis also wrote the screenplay), but it isn't the ...
- Mike Figgis
But it might be worth a try. “Stormy Monday” is about the way light falls on wet pavement stones, and about how a neon sign glows in a darkened doorway. It is about the attitudes that men strike when they feel in control of a situation, and the way their shoulders slump when someone else takes power. It is about smoking.
Today’s Paper. A Growing Number of Homeless Migrants Are Sleeping on N.Y.C. Streets. As New York City officials struggle to provide shelter for nearly 65,000 asylum seekers, some have said they ...
Jan 12, 1990 · Today’s Paper | ... The New York Times Archives. ... the terrific 1988 sleeper ''Stormy Monday'' and now ''Internal Affairs,'' a dizzying police thriller, Mr. Figgis has established himself as a ...
- Mike Figgis
In 1988, Roger Ebert writes a review of Mike Figgis's "Stormy Monday," which begins: "Why is it," someone was asking the other day, "that you movie critics spend all of your time talking about the story and never talk about the visual qualities of a film, which are, after all, what make it a film?" Good question. Maybe it's because we work in words, and stories are told in words, and it's ...
Feb 9, 2006 Full Review Janet Maslin New York Times Mr. Figgis, who is a musician as well as a film maker, brings the place, the plot and the film's haunting characters vibrantly to life. What's ...
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A smoky, jazzy mood-ring of a movie. Throughout "Stormy Monday," the characters are sharply drawn, the dialogue is bracingly hardboiled, and the tension is skillfully sustained. Melanie Griffith ...
