Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...films (and who stars as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the upcoming Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace). However, DiCaprio had expressed strong interest in working with Boyle ever since they crossed paths at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996. DiCaprio had recently made The Basketball Diaries, a dark indie film about heroin addicts, while Boyle was there with Trainspotting, a light indie film about heroin addicts. Back then DiCaprio lobbied Boyle's team for a shot at a future film; two years later, in the wake of Titanic, the Brits were chasing him down to take the part...
That's just the sort of killer instinct Hollywood loves: an unerring commercial sense at the price of a street vendor's Rolex. Time will tell if Ritchie is the real goods. But as LS&2SB proves, he can blast out 107 minutes of hard, dark...
...over the face, right. In one gobsmacking moment during his show, a model wearing a hat that echoed a Calder mobile, middle left, turned her head slowly, and the hat wrapped around her face like a veil. The lights went off, and zowie! The horizontal disks glowed in the dark...
Though Taylor steers clear of personal revelations, he speaks engagingly about his often dark dances: "I get my energy, I think, from being afraid--being afraid to choreograph, being afraid to fail." There are no failures on display in Dancemaker, just a clear-eyed portrait of a great artist at work...
...chief financial officer, starring Richard Dreyfuss and written by David Mamet. Dreyfuss gets to spit out some Mametian wisdom--"People dislike what they envy"--but mostly Dreyfuss and the movie are sluggish, as old Meyer dawdles through his memories. What's left is a gallery of dark haberdashery and hard faces. Still, a tip of the fedora to the reliably fabulous Beverly d'Angelo (as a brassy Mrs. Lansky) and to Eric Roberts (Bugsy Siegel). Roberts smiles and snarls through a visage of cracked pottery, or cracked poetry...