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(10/26/01 4:00am)
avid Lynch's Hollywood is not like yours or mine, but there are some similarities between most people's visions of Movie Land and the vision presented in Lynch's latest film, Mulholland Drive. There's a starry-eyed girl from nowhere who finds herself confused in a strange land of oddball Los Angeleans. There's an eccentric up-and-coming director who wears lots of black (Steven Soderbergh, anyone?). There are even some odd lesbians (well, maybe that's only in Howard Stern's Hollywood).
(10/26/01 4:00am)
At the end of Rod Lurie's The Last Castle, we are treated to a great big patriotic moment that in a pre-Sept. 11 world would seem incredibly false, insulting to our intelligence and so hokey that we'd forget some of the interesting character work that kept our attention for a slim majority of two hours. Instead, because of the terrorism, we are treated to a great big inspirational moment, reminding us that no matter how great our personal struggles are, the struggle of our newly challenged nation eclipses all other problems--past and present. It's still hokey, but it's powerful. The Last Castle may be the one thing that improved because of Sept. 11.
(10/19/01 4:00am)
fter Butch, after Bonnie, there came Bandits.
(10/02/01 4:00am)
As we continue to cope with our great national loss, we now find ourselves looking forward, working on ways to prevent further attacks. Aside from the ongoing debate about military action, we also are examining ways that we will change our own domestic behaviors.
(09/21/01 4:00am)
There's something different about Bob Dylan's latest effort, Love and Theft. It's not the voice--Dylan has never sounded more Dylan. It's not the lyrics--Dylan tells a dozen stories on this album with the same quality of poetry that he narrated with 40 years ago.
(09/19/01 4:00am)
"The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way--all of them who have tried to secularize America--I point the finger in their face and say, OYou helped this happen.'" said Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sept. 13, 2001.
(09/14/01 4:00am)
What price will a woman pay to protect her child? That is the question at the center of The Deep End, an emotional thriller that features an impressive, nuanced performance from Tilda Swinton.
(09/14/01 4:00am)
IT-LIST FEMALE: I will always love you. You saved my life.
(09/07/01 4:00am)
The decision by Tim Blake Nelson to direct Brad Kaaya's screenplay for the film O is neatly summarized by the following quote from the third scene of the third act of William Shakespeare's Othello:
(09/07/01 4:00am)
What is most striking about John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch is not the story of a down-on-his-luck transsexual, nor is it the message that sexual orientation is a fluid concept--it's the raw emotional power that actor/director/writer Mitchell conjures every time his Hedwig steps up to the microphone.
(09/07/01 4:00am)
Jesus playing football? How about running on a track?
(09/04/01 4:00am)
A while ago, I attended a lecture on how to report politics--both local and national. A political reporter from USA Today was headlining the lecture. She opened up with a peculiar statement.
(08/31/01 4:00am)
You are getting sleepy. You are getting very sleepy. Watch the frantic man. Listen to him worry. You are getting sleepy because you are watching Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion--a boring wasteland of a film.
(08/31/01 4:00am)
I wanted to know what the future holds for me. I made the mistake of asking Miss Cleo.
(07/18/01 7:00am)
Later this summer Tim Burton's remake of The Planet of the Apes hits theaters. We know the story: man lands on an "unknown" planet and discovers that apes, not humans, are the dominant species. Certain similarities exist between all primates, including apes and Duke's favorite primate: the lemur. Like apes, lemurs are feisty, playful and dexterous. Why not Planet of the Lemurs? Some reasons why lemurs would not make a good dominant species:
(07/18/01 4:00am)
Summer means trips to the beach, county fairs, outdoor cookin' and 16 weeks of movies so utterly predictable that there's almost no point in heading to the multiplex--at least for film critics.
(07/18/01 4:00am)
Hollywood Postulate: Fuse the creative genius of two successful filmmakers and the resulting product's appeal, intrigue, and bankability will double (no matter how incompatible they actually are). It is not surprising that Steven Spielberg figured a great film could be shaped by mixing his whimsical story-telling with one of Stanley Kubrick's nightmarish tales: A Clockwork E.T., a bad idea.
(07/18/01 4:00am)
in ancient times, all roads led to Rome. One could be traveling the Goth Turnpike, heading due north toward Finland, and he would miraculously find himself back in the capitol city.
(07/18/01 4:00am)
In April, an NBC executive distributed a copy of an exceptionally violent episode of The Sopranos to other television executives along with a memo. It explained that although NBC could not and would not broadcast a show like this, the networks nonetheless needed to study the use of sex, violence and language in premium cable television.
(06/21/01 4:00am)
"Finally, a video-game-based movie that is better than Street Fighter or Super Mario Bros."--David Manning. That's the kind of back-handed compliment that Tomb Raider deserves. Based on the widely popular video game of the same name, Tomb Raider dumbs down the Indiana Jones-action genre to a new low. Its numerous special effects belong in special-ed. and the plot could not be staler.
