Word: fi
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History and horror, crime and war, sci-fi and sexual transgression. He may have made only 13 feature films in the course of his 46-year career, but Stanley Kubrick covered a range that more prolific filmmakers might--and often did--envy. But whether the films were set in the deep past or the near future, whether their prevailing tone was comic or violent, sly or brutish, weary or idealistic, Kubrick really made the same movie over and over again--vivid, brilliant, emotionally unforgiving, imagistically unforgettable variations on the theme that preoccupied him all his mature life...
...process that screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and director Roger Michell (Persuasion) allow to develop confidently, digressively. William, for example, finds himself obliged to pretend he's a journalist for a fox-hunting magazine interviewing all those connected with Anna's latest release, a horseless sci-fi epic, at a press junket. On another occasion, he's mistaken for the room-service waiter and patronized by her movie-star boyfriend (a funny, uncredited Alec Baldwin, trying hard for noblesse oblige and delightfully missing the note...
...Science fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Following in the footsteps of Star Wars and Star Trek are series and films such as Babylon 5, a remake of Lost in Space, Wing Commander, and numerous others. All have sought to profit from the lucrative sci-fi craze, but in the end, only the two original combatants deserve our attention...
Lucas had little going for him. When he started looking for a studio to back his Star Wars project, he was a fledgling director with only two other movies under his belt--a dismal and poorly received artsy sci-fi film called THX 1138 and American Graffiti, a well-made but less than awe-inspiring look at teenage life. Plus, the cast he was assembling for his latest project was made up largely of actors (mostly from TV) who had yet to make it big. And many more who never would. And then there was the story--a heroic epic...
Science fiction is enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Following in the footsteps of Star Wars and Star Trek are series and films such as Babylon 5, a remake of Lost in Space, Wing Commander, and numerous others. All have sought to profit from the lucrative sci-fi craze, but in the end, only the two original combatants deserve our attention...