Word: cinema
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...moment, at last, he clearly pitches a slapstick theory of cinema...
...Payne fears that those breakthroughs have been “co-opted by these capitalist forces.” Still, when it comes to the future of American cinema, a surprising optimistic streak comes...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of popular screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly and inexorably are they pulled into McGann...
...vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world. It's a quiet, sad, beautiful story about how ego obstructs work and love. And it contains the best joke about Merlot in cinema history--along with the funniest beating-with-a-motorcycle-helmet scene, as performed by Payne's wife Sandra...