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...Brokeback Movie...
...Every festival has its stories of the good movies they let get away. Cannes, with the biggest, harshest spotlight, has more of these might-have-beens than most. Last year it turned down Brokeback Mountain, to which the only reaction can be, "Huh?" This year the festival made room for DreamWorks' OK animated feature Over the Hedge but is not showing Pixar's turbo-terrific Cars...
...strong and helpful in rehearsing a play." But what sounded good in theory struggled in practice, especially when applied to young actors unused to the rigors of group rehearsal. Ledger, in particular, found the process "unsettling," Armfield recalls, and the director negotiated a one-on-one approach with his Brokeback Mountain star. "Lead actors in a film really have to take-and will take-responsibility for their own performances," he says...
...interned. Schamus not only has a PhD, teaches at Columbia, and publishes, but he has also collaborated with Ang Lee to co-write and executively produce “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and, more recently, to produce last year’s “Brokeback Mountain.” Schamus’ success is probably the status a lot of film buffs want to achieve. And maybe, just maybe, Polonsky, with his lone film thesis in tow, is on his way there. —Staff writer Cara B. Eisenpress can be reached at eisenpr@fas.harvard.edu...
Citizen Kane, Brokeback Mountain--those are movies with artistic intentions. Their titles allude to a complicated protagonist or an evocative setting and promise more intricacies when the lights go down. Snakes on a Plane is a different kind of movie. It's about snakes. On a plane. The snakes bite people. The end. "I knew I was going to do the movie when I saw the title," says Samuel L. Jackson, who plays an FBI agent escorting a mob witness on a doomed flight to Los Angeles. "I think I have an audience member's sensibility, and the title just...