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...Anjelica Huston suddenly intrudes on the film, selling patent medicine and vague spirituality. Also in why the near-moribund western genre suddenly reappears in this rather austere, if handsomely mounted, form. It is the kind of movie that gets you thinking not so much about its ostensible subject, but about how difficult it must have been for director and co-writer David Von Ancken to make - toting all that production gear up into the waist-deep snows, plunging Brosnan (or his stunt double) into the eponymous falls, while wearing a fur coat that must weigh 20 pounds even before...
...make a comedy on almost any subject - as Preston Sturges (and even Mel Brooks) have proved. But there's no spark in this one. And no sparkle in Garner's playing. She's an attractive young woman, but her energy is low and her mood is endlessly wistful. Olyphant seems more of a male model than an actor, and the writer-director, Susannah Grant, does not know how to stir her actors up comedically or romantically...
What made you take on this subject...
...initial thought was to write a 250-, 300-page book, more or less in the traditional format, where you start with a dead body or a crime, and then 300 pages later, everything is explained, and you're done. But as soon as I started pressing at the subject a little, the connections were just so many, and they just sprang up. What I mean by that is the sort of obvious connections between organized crime and politics in Bombay and in the country at large...
...last weekend, the Oscar-nominated Letters had grossed just under $40 million, earning it the top spot during the Japanese cinema industry's all-important New Year holiday season. Not bad for a downbeat movie that chronicles one of Japan's bitterest defeats - one that has rarely been the subject of a Japanese film...