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...strategy reminiscent of recent cinema history: use the vision of independent artists on big studios’ big-budget bonanzas. It is the career path followed by such well-known directors as Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk), Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects to X-Men) and Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead to Spider Man 2), and one that often leads, interestingly enough, to comic book adaptations...
...Subhas Chandra Bose—known as “Netaji,” or “leader”—was one of the most influential and most controversial. Shyam Benegal, an accomplished Bombay director and one of the most celebrated figures of contemporary Indian cinema, has taken the last years of Bose’s life as the subject of his newest film, Netaji: The Last Hero...
...Dead Man Walking. He’s also won acclaim for his roles in 1992’s The Player, 1990’s Jacob’s Ladder, 1990’s Cadillac Man, and for his break-out performance in 1988’s Bull Durham. Real cinema buffs also recognize Robbins for his roles in 1999’s Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 2000’s High Fidelity, 1986’s Top Gun, and the so-bad-it’s-good 1986 Howard the Duck...
...have another comedy out before the end of the year: Di que Sí (Say I Do), in which she plays Estrella, an aspiring actress who agrees to star in a TV reality show. The rules: she has to spend a week at a beach resort with a nerdy cinema usher she despises - and pretend to be in love. In the film, Vega will do anything for the spotlight. Luckily for her, in real life, the world is already watching. Cecile De France isn't, strictly speaking, from France. But that hasn't prevented the 30-year-old Belgian from...
...including Amélie star Audrey Tautou, and revisits the students five years on as they face the c?hallenges of adult life. "It was so wonderful getting together again that I think the same enthusiasm shines through," says De France. Yet her own tastes lie elsewhere: "American and French cinema are wonderfully creative and entertaining, but they lack the hard-edged, at times brutal messages, themes and humor of northern cinema culture." She says she'd love to make such films for directors like Denmark's Lars von Trier, Britain's Ken Loach or fellow Belgians (and brothers) Jean-Pierre...