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...when I can be a pain in the ass," says JENNIFER JASON LEIGH. She's referring to her technique in movies that are adapted from novels. "I'll just take every page of the novel that refers to my part and paste it to the corresponding page in the script." When the novels in question are such highly regarded works as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Henry James' Washington Square, which open within a few weeks of each other, this strategy can be a little intimidating for the directors. The two movies allowed Leigh to play the devoted...
...Mandarin-language "Father Knows Best trilogy" (Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) to Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. His characters' failure to achieve an artificial ideal makes the films both comedies of manners and bourgeois tragedies. Especially this one, thanks to a superb script by Lee's frequent collaborator James Schamus. When Janey joins Elena in her kitchen to help with the dishes, the hostess whispers a steely, "Don't touch them!" It is Elena's amusingly fierce marking of her turf; it is also a socially acceptable way for her to bark...
...Edge, from a screenplay by David Mamet... Oh, excuse us while we ask, "Huh?" The Ubermensch of Urban Menace with a wilderness script? Mr. American Buffalo out where the, well, elk roam? Yes, and this is genuine Mametiana: a two-character piece with threats crowding in from the elements (vast space, cold weather, an angry bear) and from a man's bitter, murky soul. It doesn't have much of the Mamet dialogue tang; that is on dazzling display in his forthcoming thriller, The Spanish Prisoner. Still, The Edge, directed by Lee Tamahori, offers enough of what a melodrama demands...
...this one. The picture is an urgent if conventional thriller about the theft of a nuclear bomb by a Serbian terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...
Like many planners, the book opens to reveal a set of seven narrow columns where a lucky few get their appointments carefully inscribed in Lamelle's narrow, sloping script...