Word: cineast
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...Eight films and more than 30 years later, Adoor has evolved from fiery-eyed New Wave revolutionary to wise old cineast. When I first meet him at his home outside Trivandrum, he's wearing a traditional white dhoti, blue plaid shirt and square glasses that make his black eyes look like marbles in a bowl. He has cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang...
...Technically, Farrell isn't famous yet. Apart from a handful of film critics, hardly anybody has seen him act. Tigerland was a box office failure, bringing in a measly $140,000. But Farrell's performance, complete with spot-on Texan accent, burned him into cineast consciousness and created a buzz akin to hysteria. "It's mad. None of this was planned," says Farrell at a bar in Prague, the filming location for the World War II drama Hart's War. "I always just auditioned for jobs and hoped I did well, so I could move on to the next step...
...essence of two warring addicts: mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), the Blanche DuBois of Brighton Beach, and her son (Jared Leto). Mom swears by amphetamines and TV hucksters; Harry loves heroin and his desperate girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). Using the bravery of his actors, and every trick in a smart cineast's book, Aronofsky takes the viewer on a jolting trip through the theme park called Hell. It's a demanding film, and a real movie...
Here, this writer should probably admit his biases. He speaks as a lifelong liberal, appalled since coming to political consciousness by the kind of Stalinoid bullying and terror inherent in Polonsky's chilling remark. Also as a lifelong cineast who came to aesthetic consciousness as Kazan was achieving his unprecedented (and so far unduplicated) status as the leading director in both theater and movies. And, finally, as one befriended by Kazan a decade ago, when I began producing a TV documentary about...
Newcomers to HFA "get really confused," claimed the woman selling tickets at a recent showing. "They don't understand that we don't sell popcorn... You can tell that they only go to Loews." For the savvy cineast, however, the archive is a "real resource, the woman insisted. "A lot o times we'll show things that won't get shown anywhere else...