Word: cinema
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...started on a blog, with early rumors of a Snakes script which were posted on a forum run by screenwriter Josh Friedman. Then came the news that star Samuel L. Jackson had signed on to the project, and the even more surprising news that New Line Cinema had agreed to bring back the film's original title (after switching it to Pacific Flight 121). It was enough to send online movie fans, particularly those steeped in the subculture of horror films, scrambling to share the news with their friends that Snakes was not just a hilarious myth, but would...
...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 puts it all right out there. You either get it, or you don't." At various points, executives at New Line Cinema admit they did not get it. "They wanted to call it Pacific Air 121," says Jackson. "I told them that was the stupidest damn thing I ever heard...
...tantalizing possibility of seeing bears emerge from their long hibernation. Whatever the season, there's a Spring Creek safari to match. Half-day excursions start from $85. That's pricier than a movie ticket to Brokeback Mountain, but this is nature on a screen far wider than any cinema...
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...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...