But neither can shake each other’s memory. Listen to Id Like To Stay (One Night Stand 1997) by Mike Figgis & Dave Hartley & Chris Laurence & Laurence Cottle & John Paricelli & Ralph Salmins. Out of that brush with danger, the two spend a hot night together before Max returns to L.A. The duo shares Woody-ish high culture at a string-quartet concert and cool culture at a jazz club, only to be mugged at knifepoint (in broad night-light by a well-spoken middle-aged couple, the her of whom grabs Karen’s breast for good measure). Away from his deprecatingly perky wife (Ming-Na Wen) and kids, Max meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski, biting her lip to denote spiritual depth), a creamy mystery woman, in a hotel lobby otherwise overrun with jabbering U.N. Thus is set in train a series of feelings.

In One Night Stand (New Line) - a poor Figgis approximation of a threadbare Woody Allen fantasy, minus the jokes - Wesley Snipes attempts to figure out how to play Max, a hip-to-the-groove commercial director from Los Angeles on business in NYC with far too many ascots in his suitcase. On a trip to New York, commercials director Snipes bumps into and spends the night with UN employee Kinski. British director Mike Figgis obviously has not read Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s press releases trumpeting New York City’s safer-and-saner image.

One night stand 1997