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...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...
...seeing through walls, magically turning statues into people. It shows Marcel, as a child, watching himself as a young man--just as we all hit the replay button on our lives. Like the turn-of-the-20th-century fantasy films of Georges Melies, Time Regained reminds you that all cinema is a clever trick of the light...
Richard Corliss is entitled to his negative opinion of Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost, which I found utterly delightful. But his dismissal of Branagh as a filmmaker can't go unchallenged [CINEMA, June 12]. Branagh remains the most consistently exciting and dedicated interpreter of Shakespeare in our time, a filmmaker of heart, intelligence and originality. One moviegoer was heard to remark about Branagh after seeing the film, "He's so fearless I could kiss him!" That's a rare enough quality, and one the world of cinema should see more often. JANE LAND Larchmont...
...know what their "characters" will be like until the show airs. In 1973 the Loud family of California became the test rabbits for the genre when PBS filmed their lives--including the coming out of son Lance and the breakup of the parents' marriage--in the seminal cinema-verite documentary An American Family. The Louds were utterly unprepared to become national symbols of suburban angst. "My mom was very proud of the family she had raised," says Lance, now 49. "It ultimately crushed her how much of the show's emphasis was on the divorce." Sister Michele, now 42, remembers...
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