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...Guess He'll Skip This Flick You reported that director Royston Tan's intense, gritty film 15 explores teenage life on the dark side of Singapore [Sept. 1]. You suggested that Singaporeans will learn much from the movie's depiction of adolescent angst and despair. This is questionable. We Singaporeans have seen too many delinquents cutting class, chain-smoking, taking drugs, running away from home and fighting. Because the government has not yet approved this film for general release in Singapore, Tan said he feels like an outcast. Well, no apologies. This country was built by a generation of workers...
...inner lives. Brother Justin comes across as a typical whited sepulcher--if there's one thing more trite than a dwarf in a surreal drama, it's a preacher with a dark side--and Brown's campy performance largely involves shouting "Enough!" and "No-o-o-o!" with horror-flick pathos. Stahl is more modulated as Ben, but the script stagily walks him from one set piece to another to establish our sympathy: he breaks up a near rape, consoles a mother whose baby has died and so on. God can get away with such synchronicity, but a TV show...
...flamboyant and gifted Hollywood figure. At 21 he produced a movie (Two Arabian Knights) that won an Oscar at the first Academy Awards ceremony. Before he was 25, he had directed and supervised the thrilling dogfights in the World War I fly-boy spectacle Hell's Angels, the flick that made Jean Harlow a star. Two years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom. By the mid-1950s...
...order." Anyone who tried to give a Kitano character an order in one of his movies would probably get a chopstick in the eye. But despite his initial reservations?including concerns over the rights to Zatoichi?Kitano was intrigued. The box office potential of an action flick could not have hurt, either; Kitano has never directed a major commercial hit. Once Saito had fully secured the film rights and agreed to give Kitano's production company total control?her contributions from then on would be lunch boxes for the cast and 15% of the film's funding?the stage...
...view," says director Amy Heckerling. "They thought maybe it would be O.K. on Nickelodeon, but young guys were who you wanted to get into theaters." Now the girl-centric movie is proving to be as popular an entertainment as the boys' big-bucks shoot-'em-ups. The newest chicklet flick, Freaky Friday, opened to surprisingly strong reviews and box-office numbers last week. Up next is the rather more grim Thirteen, directed with passionate intensity by Catherine Hardwicke, who had a mentoring relationship with Reed, the daughter of an ex-boyfriend...