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Hailed as one of the finest filmmakers of the 1990s American indie boom, Russell has had no trouble establishing his reputation among the celluloid hipster set. His darkly comedic films have tickled critics and cineastes alike, from the low-budget Spanking the Monkey, a dark comedy about masturbation and incest, to Three Kings, a comedic, scathing take on the first Gulf...
...children the director worked with as a teaching aide at a special school in Sydney. "There's something beautiful about their fixation with detail," Shortland recalls. The same could be said of her own painterly eye. And her extraordinary ability to stir empathy for the souls in her celluloid snow dome...
...label. At a Times Square movie palace last week, patrons who shelled out $10 each to see a new Tom Cruise movie, only to get David Hasselhoff as the star instead, angrily rushed the box office to demand full refunds. The studio admitted saving millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their limbs and faculties intact. Both of 'em can talk and kiss and land a punch, am I right? Let's not split hairs!" And, he pointed...
...John Kerry?" asks George Butler. "It's a big question." The documentary filmmaker who propelled Arnold Schwarzenegger to fame with the 1977 movie Pumping Iron, Butler is hoping he will have crafted the definitive answer onto 90 minutes of celluloid in time to hit theaters by late summer. The film will be loosely based on Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley's admiring biography of Kerry's years as a boat captain in Vietnam and then as an antiwar protester. But Butler brings more to the $1.3 million project than his cinematic skills. A close friend of the Senator...
...nature of its observance a bit--will be the ongoing impact of The Passion of the Christ. In addition to attending church services, many will fill the plush pews at their local cinemas to absorb--some for the first time, others for the second or fifth--Gibson's graphic celluloid sermon in parallel with their pastors' talks. In the past six weeks the film has made $340 million. It has opened in about 350 additional theaters for Holy Week, but even so, there are no doubt locales where people will be turned away from full showings, particularly on Friday...