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...This, Madame, is Versaille.” And in the end, the film really is a whole lot like the elaborate world it reproduces and the sad, lost girl doomed to inhabit it: distractingly ornate and beautifully stylized, but somehow ultimately empty. Bottom line: This sugar-rush of a celluloid confection temporarily dazzles, but ultimately leaves you unsatisfied. But still, at least the shoes are pretty sweet...
...CELLULOID GOLD...
...main pitfalls of “The Black Dahlia” is its incredibly confusing and nonsensical plot. Though myriad sub-plots and unexplained nicknames may have worked in book form (the movie is based on a novel by James Ellroy) it certainly does not work in celluloid. It is incredibly difficult to tell basic relationships between the characters, and many of “The Black Dahlia” allusions to other stories and clues are never resolved...
...Sydney, London and New York-and planted the seed for Armfield's next artistic challenge: adapting Candy, novelist Luke Davies' 1997 elegy to young love lost to heroin. Not only was the story risky, but it was to be told in a medium he had yet to master: celluloid. While the director, 51, had toyed with filmed plays and TV dramas, "Candy was like starting again in a new form," Armfield says. Roping in some theatrical mates, including Cloudstreet production designer Robert Cousins, he set about opening up the story of doomed junkie love and offering audiences a more familiar...
...album X&Y. During a two-week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main rail terminals. Fifty bus-shelter ads in Britain for the movie Alien vs. Predator prompted 500,000 riders to vote for who would win the celluloid battle by pushing a button on the signs. "That's what I call engagement," says Jean-Luc Decaux, a co-ceo of JCDecaux North America. Entertainment isn't the only thing being advertised on digital signs. When Lancôme launched its new fragrance, Hypnôse, in France last...