"Running Brave" originally ran with some salty language and included a shower scene with some fleeting frontal nudity (honestly, there is nothing to crow about). Robby Benson stars in this true, uniquely uplifting story of an extraordinary quest for personal excellence," according to the 1983 "Englander Productions" VHS videocassette. From life on an impoverished South Dakota Indian reservation to his phenomenal upset victory at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Mills constantly challenged the barriers of culture and his own deeply-rooted insecurities. Local actor/monologist Josh Kornbluth plays one of the easily conquered who relinquishes his essence to Ruby, as does rabbitlike Jeremy Davies ("Spanking the Monkey")."For world-class distance runner Billy Mills, the toughest competition often began when he stepped off the track. The men, meanwhile, are left with erectile dysfunction and crashed hard drives. Quoting pick- up lines learned from old movies ("You're looking good, Frankie, you got a natural rhythm"), Ruby collects the semen of her male quarry and then takes it back to cyberland to sustain her fellow clones: dizzy blond Olive and high- strung, red-haired Marine.
One of the clones, raven-haired Ruby, makes nocturnal forays into the real world dressed as a hooker. She's Rosetta Stone, a frumpy San Francisco biogeneticist, as well as three robots, or self-replicating automatons (SRAs), that Rosetta breeds by downloading her own DNA.
In "Teknolust," her second collaboration with San Francisco filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (the first was "Conceiving Ada"), Swinton plays four characters in a contemporary sci-fi fantasy. It's the theme, the issues - the "conversation" they offer, she once said - that provide the lure. Tilda Swinton, the star of "Orlando" and "The Deep End," is one actress who never chooses films on the basis of marketability or star-making potential.
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