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...life,’” Crowe says in a phone interview. This biographical approach, he clarifies, is “out of wanting to share something that is meaning[ful]…never to self-glorify.” “Elizabethtown,” Crowe??s latest film, satisfies that craving for the intensely personal that remains relatable (see review on page B6). It’s a hearty helping of Southern intimacy, inspired by Crowe??s own cathartic return to Kentucky after his father’s funeral. According...
ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe??s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate...
...more of a rarity: although it has three action scenes, at the beginning, middle and end, most of the movie is focused on smaller, less dramatic moments. The heart of the movie is not the battles, but the relationship between Aubrey and Ship Surgeon Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany, Crowe??s imaginary roommate in A Beautiful Mind...
LAUREL CANYON. Frances McDormand plays against type in Laurel Canyon, a well-crafted family dramedy by director Lisa Cholodenko. McDormand, the overbearing mom in Almost Famous, this time plays the type of fast-moving music producer scorned by her character in Cameron Crowe??s amusing 2000 cult favorite. Among her character’s transgressions: inviting Alex (Beckinsale), her future daughter-in-law, to join a three-way as part of an unconventional “getting to know you” exercise. Sam, her uber-straightlaced son (Christian Bale), would not approve. Sam and Alex...
LAUREL CANYON. Frances McDormand plays against type in Laurel Canyon, a well-crafted family dramedy by director Lisa Cholodenko. McDormand, the overbearing mom in Almost Famous, this time plays the type of fast-moving music producer scorned by her character in Cameron Crowe??s amusing 2000 cult favorite. Among her character’s transgressions: inviting Alex (Beckinsale), her future daughter-in-law, to join a three-way as part of an unconventional “getting to know you” exercise. Sam, her uber-straightlaced son (Christian Bale), would not approve. Sam and Alex...