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...Stand-up comic, TV host, auteur?Takeshi Kitano has never been shy about meeting a challenge. With each movie in his ultra-violent oeuvre, the 56-year-old Kitano has raised the critical stakes to become one of Japan's best filmmakers. Along the way, he's defined an original film persona, that of "Beat" Takeshi, the artful gangster. But in his newest movie, Zatoichi, a don't-call-it-a-remake of one of the country's longest-running and best-loved film series, and which opened last Saturday in Japan, Kitano is facing the biggest challenge...
...think that if I tried to imitate Katsu, then a viewer would have a lot of problems with it," says Kitano. "So I thought I should make everybody think it's a completely different thing." So what else sets Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi apart from its 26 predecessors? The auteur explains: "Throughout the film there is a feeling of fast action at the contemporary speed of the modern film." Translation: everything from the electron-quick fights to the rapier-thin characterizations is designed to move the film as fast as Zatoichi's blade. Katsu's early Zatoichi films helped free...
This much we know about enigmatic auteur Tim Burton's movie Big Fish, which opens Thanksgiving weekend: it contains a car, a tree and EWAN MCGREGOR. The plot revolves around an old man (Albert Finney) who tells tall tales about himself as a younger man (that would be McGregor), but little else is clear. Is it a fairy tale? "I always like a mixture of all of those elements--funny, sad, real, unreal, all together," says Burton. "I find that's the most accurate description of how I feel every day." Fair enough. So is it a comedy? "I prefer...
...show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page staple thanks to his dalliance with Demi Moore, but he is also morphing into a legitimate thespian (stop that giggling!). He has half a dozen movies on the way, including The Woods, from Signs auteur M. Night Shyamalan. Rumors even have him starring in a big-screen remake of that other '70s show, The Dukes of Hazzard, with Britney Spears mentioned to fill the short-shorts of Daisy Duke. Dude, where's the General...
...visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone needs...