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...survivors. But few dopester epics have the goofy lilt of Denis Johnson's 1992 tapestry of short stories. His hero, known only as F__head, is a Candide of the hard stuff, a clumsy innocent who finds comic epiphanies in degradation and atrocity. This film, with handsome Billy Crudup as FH and Samantha Morton as his doomed love, has no visual style to match Johnson's poetic prose. It just lays out the funny-gory scenes--say, a man with a hunting knife in his eye--and hopes you get the point. It's best to see this...
...Billy Crudup plays a Coast Guard officer bound for Vietnam; Jennifer Connelly, a peacenik. Naturally they fall in love. Hey, its the '60s. When she's killed in a car bombing, he goes on to a conventional political career. Years later Connelly starts haunting Crudup: phone calls, glimpses on the street. Is he hallucinating? Or was the bombing a pretext, letting her slip deeper into the radical underground? We never really know--or care. That's partly because of the inept production design (Montreal is visibly not New York City or Chicago), partly because of the flat direction and writing...
...came to Allen's attention for her raw, uninhibited portrayal of Iris in Carine Adler's 1997 Under the Skin, about a girl who goes into a promiscuous spiral after her mother dies. Next spring she will also be seen as a heroin addict in Jesus' Son, with Billy Crudup...
...medieval Japan, Mononoke imagines a war involving several bands of humans--and a more desperate battle between man and the environment. Ashitaka (given voice in Neil Gaiman's American adaptation by Billy Crudup), the youngest survivor of a vanishing tribe, is gored by a demon boar that is a protector of the great forest. His wound will kill him if he can't solve the mystery of his curse. He meets Eboshi (Minnie Driver), ruler of Iron Town, and her fiercest foe, San (Claire Danes), or Mononoke, which means spirit. They want to use him or escape...
...Unfortunately, the use of famous voices to attract general audiences in America degrades the brilliance of what is, on its own, a wonderful film, and interferes with the creation of a captivating fantasy. Several of the vocal performances are wonderful, such as Billy Crudup as Ashitaka and Gillian Anderson as Moro the Wolf Goddess. Crudup is entirely believable, sounding in turn appropriately brave, vulnerable, and kind. Gillian Anderson's voice is altered here, designed to sound more godlike (the effect succeeds). Her growling tones are menacing and eerie, and her Moro is as intelligently complex as many of the human...