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...teenager back in her native Seville, Paz Vega made up her mind to become famous. Another Spaniard and fellow Andalucian, Antonio Banderas, had made it big in Hollywood, so why couldn't she? "I had always loved theater and cinema," says Vega, 29, over the phone from Miami, where she's promoting her latest film, Spanglish. "So one day I said to myself that I would become an actress...
...introducing its viewers to Indian culture through both content and style. By employing the understated romance, unconvincing fight scenes and, of course, the ridiculous song-and-dance sequences of a Bollywood musical, Chadha introduces her viewers to both the Indian way of life and the Indian way of cinema. Essentially, Gurinder Chadha has had her cake and eaten it too; she has treated us to a movie with all the silly fun of Bollywood melodrama, while staying true to the understated grace of Austen’s original story...
...then, Beibin has taken the teens’ vision to festivals like Sundance and Cannes. A slideshow of his trip to this year’s Sundance Film Festival proved that he, and a core group of fellow punks, can bring their “anti-corporate” cinema to legitimate commercial forums...
...Cinema, naturally, often doesn’t help. This past weekend, the American public was subjected to the wide release of The Wedding Date, a Debra Messing-Dermont Mulroney romantic comedy about a loser thirtysomething who finds love with her hunky male escort. This weekend, we’ll receive Will Smith’s foray into the genre: Hitch, a film about a “date-doctor” who comes to terms with his own bumbling stupidity when he unexpectedly falls in love with this really super-hot girl...
...love, not to mention hot PG-13 sex scenes, you certainly can too! Now go buy the soundtrack!” How then does a singleton, attempting self-actualization and the attainment of some level of personal integrity, find peace amidst this endless parade of monotony in the mainstream cinema, that most domineering and permeable of cultural discourses? Pure, unadulterated cynicism and the snobby dissection of such barfy films as Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About You is the only path one can take. Behold—a sample reading to guide your viewing of whatever date film...