Angels in America ***
I had been wanting to see this film since it received such aclaim at the 2003 Emmy awards. This 6hour HBO miniseries is reduced to 3hours on DVD. I won't pretend to understand it but I did enjoy it. There was a great book "And the Band Played On" that looked at the AIDS epidemic in America, and this film is an artistic expression of how AIDs effected 3 families. Although this seems a work of fiction, one of the main characters is based on real life New York power broker Roy Cohn, esquire, who died of AIDS in 1986.It's New York culture, homosexual lifestyle adapted from a play. Artsy, surrealistic at times, but also spellbinding. But this is about more than AIDS and homosexuality, it is also about relationships, committment, ambition, ethics, death and life. Mike Nichols won a lot of well deserved awards for this production, and it is worth an afternoon viewing. I just wish I could have seen the whole 6 hours.
