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...Scanner Darkly is a live-action animated film. That is, Linklater first shot scenes with his star cast of actors - including Keanu Reeves (as Arctor/Fred), Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Ryder - and then had artists trace over the images, adding such fantasy elements as bugs crawling over one druggie and a protean "scramble suit," worn by Fred to disguise his identity (whatever that is). At times a face is given a kind of Jell-O elasticity. Linklater first used this process, called rotoscoping, five years ago in Waking Life. It's appropriate to the subject, and is used...
...State Department official, Idol isn't the only junk food on Condi's TV diet. She also watches Law & Order and was a fan of The Bernie Mac Show before its cancellation. But while there are no plans at the moment for a Condi-Taylor duet, Idol fans cast a total of 63.4 million votes Tuesday night - which host Ryan Seacrest pointed out was "more than any President in the history of our country has ever received." And since 35% of American Idol fans believe the votes cast in the singing competition count as much or more than...
...film, a Taiwanese thriller called Silk started a half-hour late, but the audience didn't care. They applauded director Su Chao-pin as he entered the auditorium with his cast, applauded the 30-sec. film (of steps emerging from beneath the sea and up to the stars, to the swirling, twinkling music of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals), snapped more photos when the Festival logo appeared on screen and stayed through nearly two hours of conventional ghost-story frissons. When the audience walked out at 2:40, they looked ready to go partying...
Brad Pitt didn't make it to the Cannes Festival - he is still with Angelina Jolie, awaiting the birth of their first child - but his film Babel made its own considerable stir in his absence. Pitt heads an imposing international cast in the new epic by director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who earlier collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams...
...this same dogmatism that makes Avakian immune and unresponsive to criticism. Handily, practitioners of Marxism can dismiss critics with the “b word.” Oppositional views certainly cease to matter when they can be cast aside as simply bourgeois or a product of false consciousness...