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...Unpredictable Hero Hooray for Johnny Depp! I read every word of your story about "Hollywood's most unusual star" [March 22]. In Platoon, which was shot in the Philippines, Depp played a small but moving role as a Vietnamese-speaking G.I. who perishes in a firefight. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the Philippines' turbulent 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even back then, Depp had something special. Raul H. Dado Vientiane, Laos...
...from next week, has wowed U.S. critics. Already a legend for his music-video and advertising work, Gondry, 40, seems to have overcome the commercial and critical failure of his debut feature, 2001's Human Nature. And he's setting the standard for other French directors who are giving Hollywood a Gallic accent. Far from a car crash, his career has just shifted into high gear. Eternal Sunshine tells the story, in real time and through flashbacks, of lovers Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). When their affair fails, Clementine signs up with Lacuna...
...peculiar story to tell, but "wanted people to get it," so he injected this sci-fi fantasy with flashes of reality - the occasional shakiness of a handheld camera and a palette that, except for Clementine's orange or blue hair, is muted, melancholy and truer to life than Hollywood's Technicolor hues. But the denouement almost veered into classic Hollywood schmaltz. As he prepared to shoot the ending, Gondry was still debating with Kaufman about whether to add a twist in which Joel would wake up as if it had all been a dream. In the end, Gondry says, they...
France may be the proud birthplace of cinema, but many of its directors are looking to the U.S. as the place to ply their trade. Michel Gondry isn't alone in choosing Hollywood. Mathieu Kassovitz made his English-language debut earlier this year at the helm of Gothika, starring Halle Berry. The singly named Pitof, best known for his work in computer graphics, will put the cinematic claws into another Berry film, this summer's Catwoman. And Coline Serreau is in preproduction for a much-anticipated English-language remake of her own 2001 thriller Chaos that will star Meryl Streep...
...viewed architects as celebrities, Louis I. Kahn’s life would have been made into an “E! True Hollywood Story” a long time ago. Kahn battled early obstacles–a fire that permanently disfigured his face, his family’s immigration from Estonia to America—to become a celebrated designer of famous buildings all over the world. Then he lost it all, falling deep into debt and finally dying of a heart attack in a train station restroom. Thirty years after his death, Kahn’s son has created...