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...offshoot of surrealism; this puts the cart before the horse. The French film director Jean Epstein put the matter succinctly when he wrote of how "a host of techniques, from psychoanalysis to micro-physics, has begun to describe a world where...reason no longer always seems right." Cinema "encourages us to think in a dreamlike way...[it] slowly but surely filters the most basic of doubts throughout society: that of questioning the value of absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel on two of the underground classics of 20th century film, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian...
...Japanese sources and cast his all-American movies with actors from all over. It would be a shame if he were remembered only for casting Roberto Benigni in his first English-language features (Down by Law and Night on Earth) or for being the hippest-looking director in indie cinema. His films aren't brisk and ingratiating--calling cards for Hollywood careers. He won't be making Good Will Hunting or Three Kings. He seems content or resigned to be a true independent...
...know what 'indie film' means anymore," he says. "The term has been usurped as a marketing device. The name is like alternative music--they labeled it to make it mainstream. To me, independent film means that the people making the film love cinema as a beautiful form of expression and make the creative decisions without having market analysis to decide what the audience wants the product to be. After all, the beauty of a film is that when you go into a theater, you enter a world, and you have no idea where it's going to take you. Like...
...report on wunderkind actor (sort of) Leonardo DiCaprio [CINEMA, Feb. 21], Joel Stein managed in the nicest possible way not only to inform and entertain us but also to give the subject enough room to hang himself. DiCaprio is silly, shallow, ill informed about subjects he pontificates on, and very, very young--intellectually and emotionally. But these are not indictable offenses. DiCaprio has shown himself to be a fine young actor in some films. I won't see The Beach until it comes out on video, but I will continue to read Stein faithfully. CHRISTINE ROSANIA Chicago Heights...
...eerily pervaded by a sense of d‚ja vu. Two of the play's three controversial themes-the affair between the older female protagonist and a younger man, and the tense relationship between the protagonist and her meddling mother-have been long exploited in literature, theater, and cinema. The third and by far most provocative issue, the homosexual man-heterosexual female coupling that occurs between the protagonist and her gay best friend (coincidentally a hair-dresser), is well on its way to clich‚ status courtesy of Madonna's The Next Best Thing. But bad timing...