Word: ewan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nagiko's father would write in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child?s face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories, images within images, like a Chinese puzzle box," says TIME...
...Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates, the John Hodge script and Danny Boyle's direction couldn't be more vital. Aesthetically, at least, Trainspotting chooses life...
...funny turn as Miss Bates; she has had some Austen-to-screen experience, not surprisingly, in the well-made "Persuasion." Although appearing a little young for his role as Emma's clearly older friend, Mr. Knightley, Jeremy Northam nonetheless plays the clever fellow suavely and confidently. Juliet Stevenson and Ewan McGregor (he of the hyped tripe "Trainspotting") play the unrefined Mrs. Elton and the top-hatted Frank Churchill, respectively, as competently as McGrath's creation allows...
...gossip. As her vague father (James Cosmo) looks on, Emma schemes to convince gawky Harriet Smith (Toni Collette) that her destiny lies not with a simple farmer (Edward Woodall) but with the smarmy Rev. Elton (Alan Cumming). She also hopes to land handsome rake Frank Churchill (Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor) for herself. With other pretenders and poseurs intervening, it takes Emma the whole film to realize that she has been blind to the perfect match for herself: her brother-in-law, the kindly Mr. Knightly (Jeremy Northam...
Another Miramax import, the film tracks the misadventures of some twentysomethings in Scotland, nice little punks in their own special ways. The movie's humble narrator is Renton (Ewan McGregor), heroin addict by zealous choice, as he informs us in sympathetically bitter intonations...