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...Here the Australian director could be describing his own uncanny ability to master the minutiae of moviemaking while never losing sight of the bigger picture-even if it's a picture that no one's envisaged before. With unerring prescience, Miller has zoomed Australian cinema out of a costume-drama past and into a cutting-edge future (Mad Max); beamed through the freckles and frizzy hair of a gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise...
When the words Snakes on a Plane hit the Internet, you could almost hear the hisses of delight. Net users celebrated the old-school cheesiness of the movie's premise and urged the studio, New Line Cinema, to amp up the film's violence. But like snakes, Internet hype can't be tamed, and like flying, it's not that easy to get right. When Snakes finally opened, it was box-office venom, taking in a mere $34 million, not even half of cheapie horror flick...
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
...LESSON FROM THE CINEMA: DON'T TRUST MATT Two recent movies, The Departed and The Good Shepherd, share more than Oscar ambitions and a wardrobe department full of suits. Consider the similarities...
Twelve of Wilder’s feature films and one of his short pieces will be shown at the HFA in the evenings of the upcoming weeks. Ted Barron, senior programmer at the HFA, said “Wilder is one of the great writers of cinema of all time. We wanted to do something for the works that might have been considered minor but that we think are hidden jewels...