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When director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, producer Andrew MacDonald, and star Ewan McGregor cruised over from the U.K. and crashed onto the U.S. film scene last year with the brilliant Trainspotting, cinema got the adrenaline shot that the Pulp Fiction only purported to give. Trainspotting's startling ability to combine black humor, wit, romance, violence and pathos in a story about Scottish heroin addicts marked it as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. The team embraced their incredibly risky subject matter with energy and vigor, and managed to make commercially palatable a screenplay...
...conclude. After all, you are supposed to reap what you sow. It is here that Boogie Nights delivers its most surprising, and most deeply, American turn. Anderson's menagerie of sleazy characters find redemption in family. Albeit, the family is "non-traditional," but Jack Horner, director of exotic cinema, presides over his brood of porn stars and crew with the patriarchal dedication of Ward Cleaver. By the close of the movie, all the chicks have come back to the nest. In the closing sequence, we watch Jack survey his abode, pausing to assure his wife, Amber Waves, and to chastise...
...century ago, his first film, 1973's Badlands, earned the then 29-year-old a prominent spot in the generation of young film-schooled directors that included Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Brian DePalma, who together created a new, nervy kind of movie-literate cinema but who then, as the 1970s wore on into the '80s and '90s, made some really rotten movies along with the good. Malick's reputation, meanwhile, remains crystalline, pure with the promise and power of his youthful work. Badlands, which was shot for somewhere between...
Holland does acknowledge a few consistent sources of inspiration in contemporary cinema--Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Gus Van Sant, and "in Europe, just tons of them"--but the voice she is most interested in following...
...know, it's always been an independent cinema in Europe. Practically 80 or 90 percent of what was made was independent, so I don't think that it's better today than it was a couple of years...