 |
  |
|
 |
||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||
This Weeks Movie Reviews: Bobby
Written and directed by Emilio Estevez. Cinematography, Michael Barrett.
Music, Mark Isham. Starring Harry Belafonte, Emilio Estevez, Laurence
Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Ashton Kutcher,
Lindsay Lohan, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, Freddy Rodriguez, Martin
Sheen, Christian Slater, Sharon Stone and Elijah Wood. The Weinstein
Company, 2006. R. 112 minutes. The film Bobby took so long to write and produce that its primary setting — the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles — was being demolished as the movie was filming. The Ambassador, of course, will always be remembered as the site of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, which occurred just moments after the California primary victory that all but assured his nomination for President. But to Emilio Estevez, who wrote and directed the film, the Ambassador was a melting pot of American diversity which Kennedy, had he become president, might have stirred into perfect harmony. That vision is the strength — and ultimately, the undoing — of Bobby. Read more...
Keeping
Mum
Directed by Niall Johnson. Written by Richard Russo and Niall Johnson.
Starring Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rowan Atkinson and Patrick
Swayze. Think Film, 2006. R. 103 minutes. If, in the midst of this foggy Oregon December, you feel yourself yearning for a bit of British countryside, then by all means get yourself to the theater for Keeping Mum. Set in the quaintly named town of Little Wallop (population 57), this slight, silly film has all the hallmarks of a certain sort of small-town British comedy of errors. The visiting American golf instructor (Patrick Swayze, a scary shade of tan) is named Lance and wears getups so hideous they're spot on; people put the kettle on at the faintest sign of any sort of trouble; the oddest scenarios are dealt with politely, if unconventionally. But despite universally solid performances, Keeping Mum earns only a sort of forced chuckle, falling far short of full laughs. Read more...
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
