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...latest Bond film, “Casino Royale,” James’ dame du jour presents an unfamiliarly prickly exterior, mounted atop armor as thick as the new Bond’s skull. In contrast to Daniel Craig’s cuboid appearance, Eva Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, looks remarkably like a pale rose—beautiful, but chilling. She rarely relinquishes control of a scene, digging her thorns deep into the film and filling holes in the spongy plot with a deep well of anger, love, and all that lies in between...
...offering a cynical take on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. MASH set the Altman attitude and technique: sprawling frescoes with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film narratives. Any Western town (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), casino (California Split), reception (A Wedding), concert (Nashville), Hollywood power grab (The Player), L.A. earthquake (Short Cuts), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion) could be the setting for his artful chaos, which gave actors plenty of freedom, and writers nightmares. Receiving a Lifetime Achievement Oscar this...
...reflection of life on any movie set. Or in any political campaign (Tanner '88, the TV series he concocted with Garry Trudeau, plays now like a prophetic parody of media manipulation by such masters as James Carville and Karl Rove). Or any reception (A Wedding), convention (H.E.A.L.T.H.), concert (Nashville), casino spree (California Split), couture opening (Ready to Wear), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion). Any social gathering, in fact, where people advance the friendly fraud of being themselves, where politics and showbiz overlap, where the action spills fro> m the stage into...
...Code, Click, The Pink Panther and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The hit parade has put Sony back atop the box office heap this year, with over $1.3 billion in domestic revenues already on the books and several high-buzz flicks--including the just-released Bond remake Casino Royale and next month's The Pursuit of Happyness starring audience favorite Will Smith as a homeless father--expected to add significantly to that total. ( Spider-Man 3 unspools next spring...
...itsmid-40s (it madeits debut in 1962), the movies' longest-running series faces middle age by both toning up, with the muscular new Casino Royale, and looking back, with this multi-DVD pack of all 20 of the "official" films, with the first five of the superspies. The Bond tropes may be as codified--and believable--as Kabuki, but the films can still shake and stir...