 |
  |
|
 |
||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||
This Weeks Movie Reviews: Infamous
Written and directed by Douglas McGrath.Cinematography by Bruno DeBonnell.
Music, Rachel Portman. Starring Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock,
Sigourney Weaver, Juliet Stevenson, Hope Davis, Isabella Rossellini,
Lee Pace, Jeff Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich, Gwyneth Paltrow. Warner Independent
Pictures, 2006. R. 110 minutes. A mint-green cocktail shines in the opening seconds of Infamous, a sparkling shot of something joyous, something bright — perhaps something jaded — just before Truman Capote (Toby Jones) and Babe Paley (Sigourney Weaver) settle in to watch Kitty Dean (Gwyneth Paltrow) sing Cole Porter. The song begins happily enough in the glittering world where Capote and his society women dine.
Running
with Scissors
Written and directed by Ryan Murphy. Cinematography, Christopher Baffa.
Music, James S. Levine. Starring Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes,
Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Cross, Jill Clayburgh and Gwyneth
Paltrow. TriStar Pictures, 2006. R. 116 minutes. Stars: We're all familiar with the sporting cliché that when a team loses, individual feats don't matter. A home run hit in a losing effort in baseball, for example, is only statistically meaningful. So it is in film, where even a truly great performance can't rescue a project that's content to be mediocre. Running With Scissors is alive with great performances, but they can't redeem the wandering, hesitating creature that is this bizarre black comedy. Read more...
Aimez-vous la cinéma? Filmmaking is often regarded as an art form of national importance, signifying the cultural strength of a country. Such film culture is left to the whims of the free market in some countries (Korea, China and the United States, among others), while it is nurtured by the government in others (Canada, Germany, New Zealand and France, for example). National film organizations are either a boon, empowering the artists with national pride, or they are a bust, turning hardy filmmakers into lazy navel gazers. France might be experiencing one or both of these effects. Read more...
|
|
|||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
||||||
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
