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...throwback to old Hollywood, when everybody went to the movies, when movies were the world's TV, when the norm was more ... normal. Back then, quiet types like Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper played the extraordinary ordinary man. That's Hanks. Offscreen, apparently, he leads a calm, happy life. Onscreen, he is less likely to explode than to simmer and smile. With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features -- any photo of him is bound to look smudged -- he is a '40s fella...
...hack can direct movies that make you cry. It's a simple matter of putting onscreen some wrenchingly sentimental image (sad-eyed dog with broken leg, widow on deathbed, noble peasant gunned down by soldiers) while a dozen violins tremble on the sound track. A filmmaker's real challenge is to create what German director Wim Wenders has called "emotion pictures": films that move you in a fresh way, with images that speak to the intelligent heart. Bernardo Bertolucci makes emotion pictures. He illustrates complex issues with indelible, seductive, ravishing images. And in his 12th film, Little Buddha, the Italian...
...climaxed with an act of coprophagy that still shocks; a Flamingos screening in Florida was busted last year. The film was so raw and assaultive in its mondo-trasho fashion -- a prime example of cinema sploshite -- that it made viewers feel it was made by those crude people onscreen. But no: Waters was using crudity as an ironic style. He was a gross-out Oscar Wilde, making clever comedies of bad manners...
Even before the Oscars, offers streamed in steadily, but so far, Paquin's only other appearance onscreen has been in a series of TV commercials for the U.S. long-distance phone company MCI. Paquin's parents are taking a "wait- and-see attitude," according to her agent, Gail Cowan. "If they're hounded as they are at the moment, they'll probably say no. It's not a case of wanting the fame or the money -- that's not what's important to them. Anna...
...Hollywood, as in war, truth is often the first casualty. Stories told onscreen demand heroes, villains and an intelligible plot line. Real life, on the other hand, tends to get messy -- the lines between good and bad often cross. Two years ago, director Oliver Stone was excoriated in the press for playing fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case...