Word: auteurs
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...inspire the more independent, creative types, however, Glaser paid RealMilk pitchman and film auteur Spike Lee to make three five-minute online "films." "Before this technology came into play, there was always a question about whose work would get seen and whose wouldn't," said Lee during the press demo. The Pavarotti of the Net looked on and beamed...
...Sling Blade" is, moreover, a genuine ensemble piece. Thornton is attentive and respectful of all of his characters, even of the monsters, and it avoids becoming, like another recent auteur project, "The Kenneth Branagh Story...
...movies' most memorable new face doesn't belong to a gorgeous thing named Gwyneth or Liv. It isn't all that pretty or even that new, seeing as its possessor, actor-auteur Billy Bob Thornton, is 41 and has been kicking around films for a decade. But those who have seen Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade can't get that face out of their bad dreams. The skin is celibate smooth, the eyes clamped shut to keep the demons out, or in. And when the pursed mouth opens, it speaks, in a barrelly bass, of dreadful sins...
...marvel, as he fights off a dozen or so angry Chinese men; his only weapons are a card table, some folding chairs and a metal ladder that becomes his own personal jungle gym. "Director Stanley Tong doesn't have quite the camera savvy of an ace Hollywood action auteur," notes Corliss, "but when the star is in motion, defying gravity, physics and common sense, all reservations dissolve into awe at one man's grace and comic charm. Jackie is Chan-tastic...
...holiday Wes Craven wants to be home for is Halloween. Even on Christmas he'll try to scare you. Here, the auteur of A Nightmare on Elm Street offers a Crueltide treat about a serial killer with an enshlocklopedic knowledge of scare-film tropes, from the Friday the 13th hockey mask to the Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer TV helmet. In one of the cute touches from Kevin Williamson's script, this psycho wears an Edvard Munch "Silent Scream" mask while taunting and then killing a frantic young woman (Drew Barrymore) alone in the dark. But that's just...