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...something new is certainly interesting, there is hardly a duller medium with which to address it than a drama that focuses on windshield wipers. The tale of the little guy who tries to bring the big company to justice is not an unfamiliar one. In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays a single mom who takes a power company to task for contaminating water supplies. In “The Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco. But both these films deal with moral issues...
...Posin (Skylar Astin). The other kids, including a bunch of Latinos bused in from another school, treat Dana with loud contempt, and the principal is ready and eager to close down the Drama Department, i.e. Dana. His grand idea has been to stage productions of old hit movies - Erin Brockovich played by teens - which are routinely panned by the local critic, another student at the school. No one cares for him, including his wife, Brie (Catherine Keener, in another of those roles that require her to do no more than laugh a lot at the hero's inadequacies...
Since then, Soderbergh has won an Oscar (for directing Traffic), guided Julia Roberts to a statuette of her own (for Erin Brockovich) and launched an action-movie franchise (Ocean's), while Tarantino, a slower worker, created the vertiginous, voluminous Kill Bill. Today both gents were back on the Riviera, Soderbergh for the world premiere of his Che Guevara bio-pic, Tarantino to give a film "master class" - essentially a 2hr. interview, plus clip show, with the eminent French critic-historian Michel Ciment...
...restless ambitions. His interests range far and wide, across different genres but, more important, different kinds of movies: the indie romantic comedy (sex, lies, and videotape), the all-star action spectacle (Ocean's) and the defiantly obscurantist conundrum (Schizopolis). His films can toady to an audience's prejudices (Erin Brockovich) or virtually say, "Don't watch me" (Bubble). He has the clout to get his projects off the ground and the work ethic to make them quickly: Che is his ninth feature this decade, not including shorter films and the TV series K Street. And he doesn't just direct...
...real secret of Lucille's success is Lucille, 48, who comes off as a sort of Erin Brockovich character. An Air Force brat, she waitressed nights while raising three kids, hop-scotched around the world for her ex-husband's career and eventually accomplished a remarkable feat: starting and running a successful business, as an American - and as a woman, no less - in an Islamic country. After selling cupcakes to fellow expats in Cairo, she and an Egyptian friend opened a restaurant only to see the business and the friendship go bust. She hung on, learned Arabic and read...