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...performance in her more intense scenes, such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked to the fact that English is not the mother tongue of this German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz’s flat depiction. “Youth Without Youth,” an ambitious film, falls short of success. Coppola tries to compensate for the lack of a coherent storyline and weak performances with...
...Hanks and Julia Roberts (both for Charlie Wilson's War), Jodie Foster (The Brave One) and John Travolta (Hairspray). Angelina Jolie couldn't attract paying customers to A Mighty Heart, but her allure as a good-deed-doing camera magnet is undiminished. She'll be there as a Best Actress nominee. Brad will have to come as Angelina's guest, however; the Pitt bull was snubbed for Jesse James - not to mention the outrage of ignoring Ocean's Thirteen...
...Juno this year's Little Miss Sunshine? The superficially spiky, deeply sentimental indie film got nominations for Best Comedy and Best Actress (Ellen Page). Since neither Knocked Up nor Waitress was nominated, Juno has to represent all the 2007 comedies about a woman who gets pregnant without wanting to but brings the thing to term and gets ennobled along the way. (Radical idea for a movie: unmarried heroine has unwanted pregnancy and, like more than a million women every year, gets an abortion, then goes on to live a happy, fulfilled life...
...word of advice for Barbara Bach: if the American-born actress is wondering about a Christmas present for her husband, she could do worse than buy him a thick pair of long johns. He'll need them where he's going. Not because he has become enfeebled by age or excess, far from it: at 67, Richard Starkey, a.k.a. Ringo Starr, the oldest member of the Beatles and - despite a notorious bout of overindulgence - one of the band's two survivors, seems unstoppable. His musical output is prodigious. Next month, Ringo releases his 16th solo studio album of songs written...
...playing a lawyer at crisis point in Michael Clayton; Daniel Day-Lewis a pair for his oil mogul in There Will Be Blood; and, in Boston, Frank Langella won the prize for playing an aged novelist in Starting Out in the Evening. Three groups selected Julie Christie as best actress - she's an Alzheimer's patient in the Canadian film Away From Her - and two liked Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf in La Vie en rose...