Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American independents in the '90s. Think of what U.S. films would be like--no, don't, it's too depressing--without the emergence of off-Hollywood auteurs like Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster), Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming), Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou), the brothers Hughes (Dead Presidents) and Wachowski (Bound) and, of course, the dark lord Tarantino. They're here to stay, but not as colleagues or competitors. "Directors like Quentin don't need to top some other director," says indie-film guru John Pierson. "Their fear is how to top themselves...
This has been a top year for indie cinema. Fertile talents have emerged: Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), Darren Aronofsky ([Pi]) Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss). Familiar renegades prove they can expand on their obsessions: Hal Hartley in Henry Fool, Neil LaBute in Your Friends and Neighbors. An old timer like James Ivory displays renewed grace with A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. And this fall four filmmakers who made a collective splash in 1995 and '96 are presenting works that offer hope for a better, bolder American moviescape...
...filmmakers are bumping into one another at the crossroads of Independence Highway and Career Boulevard. At this intersection there are many collisions, some artistically fatal. Directors can take the small-and-noble path, which may consign them to the fringe approval of the critics. Or they can take go Hollywood. There they may find readier financing for their off-center dreams; but they may also be on the fast track to hackdom, scrounging for films chosen by studio bosses. They pay your money and they take your choice--your independence...
Indie auteurs, consider this advice from Hollywood's ultimate insider. "Your lean budgets and low risks offer you a gift of a lifetime," says Steven Spielberg, "and if your first few films are very successful, it might be the last time you enjoy those gifts. At first you get to make your movies from the protoplasm of your creativity, intuition and passion. That virgin spring starts to dry up once the offers flood in; now you're adapting the dreams of others and, pretty soon, simply working for hire. It sometimes takes massive success to force yourselves back into your...
Tucci dwells blissfully, for now, in Indieville. Singer, who was extravagantly courted by Hollywood (after 25 companies had rejected the $6.6 million-budgeted The Usual Suspects), is ready for Hollywood, on his terms. "My goal," he says, "is to bridge that gap between the independent and the mainstream film." Apt Pupil, a big subject compacted into a wee space and a tidy $15 million budget, may fall between the two. A bright high-schooler (Brad Renfro) learns that an old Nazi (Sir Ian McKellen) is living in his small town. The two strike up a symbiotic suspicion, each playing nastier...