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This Weeks Movie Reviews: The Da Vinci Code Directed by Ron Howard. Written by Akiva Goldsman. Produced by Brian Glazer. Cinematography by Salvatore Totino. Music by Hans Zimmer. Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tatou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Paul Bettany and Jean Reno. Columbia Pictures, 2006. PG-13. 149 minutes. Moviegoers, fickle to begin with, care deeply about their books. When Bewitched bombed, it slipped silently into oblivion, where only the bored or idly curious might follow. But when Neil Jordan cast Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview With a Vampire (1994), Anne Rice came forward with her knives out, thus breathing new life into the theory that adapting fiction into film is a dicey proposition. Read more...
The Promise Directed by Chen Kaige. Story by Kaige; screenplay by Kaige and Zhang Tan. Starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang Dong-Gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Liu Yeh and Chen Hong. Warner Independent Pictures/Moonstone Entertainment, 2005. PG-13. 103 minutes. Long, long ago and far, far away, in a magical kingdom in Asia, a little girl made a deal with a goddess: power and riches would be hers, but with no hope of true love. The little girl was very hungry and probably ready to trade anything for a future that included a hot meal, but that's too mundane a consideration for Chen Kaige's The Promise, an epic martial arts fantasy following the lead of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. Kaige, whose outstanding Farewell My Concubine (1993) was the first Chinese film to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, reaches for the emotional resonance and visual magic of those two films, but his inconsistent Promise falls short. Read more...
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