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...this out of the way immediately: Of the six people who play versions of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the only one who looks the least bit like him is? yes, Cate Blanchett. It's something about the frizzy hair and the cheekbones. The one who looks the least like him is a young black kid, Marcus Carl Franklin, who rides the rails and wanders the back country and finally pays the legendary visit to Woody Guthrie as he lies dying in a hospital. Everyone else - among them Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale - just look pretty...
...held last night on the city's famous Ginza shopping street where he opened a 65,000 square-foot (1025 square meter), 12-story building housing not only his Black Label collection, but also Emporio Armani, Armani Casa, a new Armani Spa, and an Armani Ristorante. A pregnant Cate Blanchett flew in from Sydney for the day, thousands of Tokyo fashionistas lined up outside the boutique to gander at the award-winning actress and the Italian designer as they pushed the button at the lighting ceremony this evening. Afterwards, Armani held a VIP dinner to inaugurate the restaurant. TIME...
...blue-chip franchise flick The Bourne Ultimatum and two ambitious independent films with Oscar buzz, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Persepolis. They're also at work on a some of 2008's most anticipated movies, including the fourth Indiana Jones installment and a Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett epic romance called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. "They have impeccable taste--in people, in material," says DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. "People will follow those two into the impossible...
...goes throughout Elizabeth. Wit might have animated it. Or authentic passion. Or a certain imperiousness in Blanchett's playing, a certain dangerousness in Owen's. But the movie wants to see them as more modern figures - earnest, good-natured, embryonic democrats. Elizabeth, as a number of movies have proved over the decades, was a great historical figure but not a great dramatic one. The historical Queen undoubtedly had tolerant and democratic impulses of the kind that are imputed to her here. But she was also a canny, hidden and manipulative monarch, not given to broad, emotionally riveting gestures. I suppose...
...Elizabeth: The Golden Age” has matured in all ways since its prequel, 1998’s “Elizabeth.” Motivated by the many intricate layers of the personality of Queen Elizabeth I, whom Cate Blanchett portrays in both films, it never rests in one place for too long and stays impressively true to historical accounts of her reign. Despite the seven Oscars for which “Elizabeth” was nominated, “The Golden Age” breaks with the common convention of sequels falling short of their predecessors. Rather...