BEYOND RANGOON. Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko. Directed by John Boorman. At area theaters. Running time: 100 mins. Rated R. 3 1/2 STARS LAURA BOWMAN (PAtricia Arquette) can’t sleep. An American tourist ...
“Beyond Rangoon” isn’t beyond anything: It’s right in the middle, between liberal passion and liberal condescension, where it wobbles awkwardly. Least impressively, it’s full of the kind of Asians ...
BEYOND RANGOON, directed by John Boorman; screenplay by Alex Lasker and Bill Rubenstein; director of photography, John Seale; music composed by Hans Zimmer; edited by Ron Davis. A Columbia Pictures ...
“Beyond Rangoon” (John Boorman, 1995) at 1:30 p.m. on TMC. Boorman gives us a luminous, melancholy portrayal of an emotionally ravaged woman — Patricia Arquette as Dr. Laura Bowman — trying to recover ...
Despite critical acclaim, “Beyond Rangoon” was largely overlooked at the box office last year, an injustice that perhaps the video release might redress. For this is not only a gripping adventure but ...
Savaged by critics during its theatrical release, John Boorman’s “Beyond Rangoon” (1995; Sony; R; $95.95) is a revelation on video. Though the impact of the movie’s breathtaking visuals are lessened ...
Dhaka, Aug 14 (bdnews24.com) – Myanmar's pro-democracy leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has called for national unity and vowed to continue her work as much as she can. She made the call on ...
Let's journey half a world away and catch up on a very strange situation playing out in the southeast Asian country of Myanmar. It's in the commercial capital of the country, Yangon (formerly called ...
I recall Rosenbaum once slammed Beyond Rangoon because it was another Hollywood movie that put a white hero(ine) at the center of crisis in a nonwhite world. He called it cultural imperialism or ...