Word: auteurism
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...past three years, working steadily since his 1992 debut as a Harlem teen in Juice made casting directors notice his quiet forcefulness, strong build and deep, soulful eyes. (Danes has called him "one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.") He's wrapped shooting on acclaimed Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's first American crime film, Brother, and this week stars in the new Love & Basketball, a $15 million hoop-dreams romance produced by Spike Lee's company. For Epps, Love & Basketball is his shot at big-time stardom. "I look at Denzel and Wesley, Cuba and Will...
Spurred by these success stories, would-be New York City auteur Devin Crowley, 32, joined an unprecedented swell of self-financed filmmakers at this year's Sundance Festival. Actually, he didn't get into Sundance. So he screened at No Dance, an all-digital video Sundance imitator held at a nearby mall. Crowley's movie, Show Me the Aliens!!!, was yet another mockumentary, this one about alien abductions...
BRITNEY SPEARS may be the queen of pop tartiness, but her new video, From the Bottom of My Broken Heart, is an entirely wholesome affair. Oddly, it took an ex-porn auteur to clean up her act. The clip was helmed by Greg Dark, director of such fare as Devil in Miss Jones 5 and Hootermania. Public exposure of the connection between the ex-pornographer and the already-too-precocious teen singer is making both sides nervous. Though Dark has directed more than 20 music videos, his agent says she is worried that dwelling on Dark's past might prevent...
...apprenticed with John Sayles and Martin Scorsese, but Barnard grad Babbit's boldest inspiration was Amy Heckerling, auteur of Clueless. Says Babbit: "I want a career like hers: do TV commercials, videos, everything!" An open lesbian, she read an article about "homosexual conversion camps" and fashioned a $1.2 million comedy around them. Cheerleader may not be Clueless, but neither is the 29-year-old Babbit. "It's no surprise women can direct films," she says. "It's surprising they're being given the opportunity to do so--and taking...
...like Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves up, they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history, Ed Wood. Batman director Tim Burton reads it and signs on, and when the movie garners critical praise, the guys decide to stick with their new formula. "Most biopic pitches you hear in Hollywood are about 'The first person to blah-blah-blah,'" says Columbia's executive...