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...Birth of a Nation’s] main element, because it’s a silent film, is hyperbolic; the reality, of course, is much more complex,” says Miller. “I am intrigued how cinema is used to reduce complex issues into cliché soundbites, how it acts as propaganda for a very simple vision of America...
...Oscars, that annual self-display of bad plastic surgery and the art of assembly-line cinema, have come to a close for the time being. At least I can breathe a sigh of relief that Finding Neverland went home with nothing. I wouldn’t say particularly great films ran off with the famed statuettes (though Million Dollar Baby has its moments of melancholic beauty), but nonetheless the Academy smartly denied its honors to “that movie with the kids flying out the window.” Besides, no more children need to discover the wonder...
...think it’s the act of moviegoing itself that is responsible for its continued existence. We’ll see whatever they dish out, as long as we can retain the treasured experience of the act. Not even the greatest of writers on cinema can effectively define the universal experience of it—because its essence, its ontology if you will, is held in the depths of the individual soul, not in a regressive ideology of the masses...
...their characters to chaos, violence and injustice. His latest, Never Let Me Go (Faber and Faber; 263 pages), is crueler still. And so who is this author: English intellectual or Japanese sensei? "I felt half English and half Japanese for a long time," says Ishiguro, relaxing in the small cinema that's the pride of his suburban London home. In the corner are three electric guitars, a reminder of his early, failed ambition to be a rock star. "My writing style is quite minimalist on the surface, with hints of conflict or tension tucked away," he says. "That's something...
There is unrest in Middle-earth. Lord of the Rings filmmaker PETER JACKSON has sued New Line Cinema (a unit of Time Warner, TIME's parent) for breach of contract, alleging the studio mishandled home-video sales, video games and merchandising for The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of the LOTR trilogy, which grossed nearly $3 billion. New Line declined to comment on pending litigation, but Jackson's complaint isn't the first. In 2003, 18 LOTR actors reportedly banded together and demanded better pay. (They got a bonus.) Actor Sean Astin still grumbled later that he made...