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...times the Brits err on the other side: understatement can shade toward indifference. Mirren was so reasonably sure of taking both awards that, in her first acceptance speech, she didn't bother with the obligatory thank-you to her husband, director Taylor Hackford. She did that the second time. Perhaps Mirren is saving her "A" material for the Oscars. Expect a regal proclamation when she wins...
...doors, we'll-call-yous and try-it-our-ways. Cast a rap star in the lead role, not a journeyman actor with zero marquee wattage. Make it in Los Angeles, not in your hometown. And, the Hollywood whisper went, could you please not be a white guy? Taylor Hackford had run up against similar prejudices in the 15 years it took him to make Ray. As Brewer recalls, "I'm sitting there sweating bullets, thinking, No one is buying this movie about Ray Charles. Why would they buy my movie about a pimp...
...film debut in 1957 with The James Dean Story. Martin Scorsese has made nearly as many documentaries as fiction features. (His study of Bob Dylan premieres on PBS in September. He is also in talks to do a film on Airbus.) Such notables as Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and Michael Apted still shuttle from one form to the other. Werner Herzog, the world-class German auteur, has completed three superb docs--The White Diamond, Wheel of Time and Grizzly Man--each one as mystical and magical as the most surreal fiction film...
Such detail must seem irrelevant to Director Taylor Hackford; he knows that White Nights will be a hit only if it is seen as an extended music and dance video. With ingenious duplicity, Hackford has worked ten new pop tunes, by Phil Collins and Lionel Richie, among others, into a ballet film set in the U.S.S.R. He has also had the inspiration, radical by the standards of recent musicals, to keep his dancers' feet in the film frame, and to hold a shot long enough to anchor the loping rhythms of Choreographer Twyla Tharp. Hines taps and boogies--and acts...
...splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx’s almost perfect portrayal of Ray Charles...