Word: drama
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...writer Tony Gilroy suggested Greengrass. "There was a grunt of approval," remembers Damon, sitting across from Greengrass in a poolside cabana at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. "I was the one idiot in the room who hadn't seen Bloody Sunday." After the meeting, Damon watched the documentary-style drama about the 1972 massacre of civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland. Within hours, he recalls, "I called the producers and said we'd be really lucky if we could get this...
...Bergman wasn't kidding. Most of his 60-some films, from his 1944 screenwriting debut with the schoolroom drama Torment through his swan song Saraband, released in the U.S. in 2005, were about the plague of the modern soul - the demons and doubts, secrets and lies that men and woman evaded but were forced to confront, to their peril. This agonized Swede was a surgeon who operated on himself. He cut into his own fears, analyzed his failings, perhaps sought forgiveness through art. He may never have found that expiation; he lived his last years alone on remote Faro island...
...sites. The Ingmar Bergman brand has a last chance to interest, and addict, those for whom serious foreign films now just sound like homework. If they take a look, they will find the pleasures films can offer: personal dilemmas with universal reverberations; beautiful women suffering deeply and gorgeously; excoriating drama as enthralling entertainment; the ineffable made visible. It's the right time, and past time, for a new generation of Bergmaniacs. They will find that there's nothing more invigorating than total immersion in the dark night of Bergman's soul...
...shows effective is that they are no more about being female than The Sopranos was about being male. That is, they are about that, thoroughly, organically, but not exclusively. (The shows befit the era of Hillary Clinton, who has enough political and personal backstory that--if she were a drama lead--her being the potential first woman President would be only her B or C plot.) Their women, like most women, like most people, have other things to worry about...
...Lord of the Rings, Narnia and Harry Potter, not to mention 300, fantasy is a proven commodity. But the big studios may have a more difficult time domesticating Gaiman than they have with his colleagues. Stardust is tough to market--it's a category-breaking mix of comedy, romance, drama and action--and like many truly nerdy genre works, it's full of unhip, unironized emotion. "It's not like a comedy like Shrek that's making fun of the thing," Gaiman says. "It's the thing itself...