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...overwhelming number of award worthy films. One film, however, seems to aspire to return to nostalgic movie magic. As his follow-up to The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, director Frank Darabont returns to a more classic era in The Majestic, his salute to Frank Capra and the movie palaces of old. I’ll be sure to see it away from home...
...offers a pair of Eastern European criminals, a psycho killer (Karel Roden) and a psycho cameraman (Oleg Taktarov) who goofily wants to become an auteur like Frank Capra. Just how his video record of their crime spree, which includes spectacular arson as well as murder, will help him achieve that goal is the great mystery of his derangement. His tapes are of interest to Kelsey Grammer, playing the cynical host of a tabloid TV show, and they may be the key to an insanity plea that will help the pair cash in after they are caught...
Richard Schickel's review of the film Pay It Forward was waaaaay too cynical [CINEMA, Oct. 23]. We were a better nation when Frank Capra was making those feel-good movies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. If Pay It Forward's director Mimi Leder and her cast can even come close to making us feel uplifted and inspire us to go out and practice random acts of kindness, then good for them. Our country could use a little "Capra-corn," even if it's a pale imitation. PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...
...improve the world, he invents the Pay It Forward plan. His idea is to do good deeds for three people, each of whom does the same for three more individuals and so on--until, presumably, peace is established in the Middle East. This is not dissimilar to Frank Capra's John Doe movement and, indeed, the movie ends on a populist-sentimental note that's in Capra's vein, but shamelessly so. It's Capra-corn without the Capra craft...
...strike is settled soon, on terms favorable to the union, it will be partly for a reason as corny as a Frank Capra climax: because the stars rescued the struggling actors they once were...