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...network. The U.S. has invested too little in cultural exchange. The overall failing is perhaps simply that the government has no coordinated communications--oh, let's say it, propaganda--strategy. Asks Representative Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee: "How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue has such trouble promoting a positive image of itself overseas...
After becoming disenchanted with the Hollywood filmmaking system, the Hughes brothers took a hiatus from the craft, delving into documentary film before coming back to fiction with From Hell. Did the brothers return with revitalized energy and a new zest for filmmaking? Unfortunately, no. Maybe they should just stick to the American slums...
Generally, when a Hollywood studio feels excited or even lukewarm about an upcoming release, they give the film a screening that allows reviewers and critics the time to, well, review and critique. Given Drew Barrymore’s ever-increasing popularity and James Woods’ strong reputation among fans and critics alike, it seems a bit parsimonious of Columbia Pictures to screen these two stars’ latest flick, Riding In Cars With Boys, only two days before its general public release. Such a penurious allowance of time indicates that the public relations people at Columbia...
...rarest (though unequivocally the most rewarding) brand of biographical film treats the truly unbelievable story, the preternatural case history, the real life epic that, without artistic interpretation or cinematic doctoring, reads like a full-blown Hollywood screenplay. Steven Soderberg’s 2000 Oscar-award-winning Erin Brockovich tells just such a story. To be sure, Soderberg’s nuanced cinematographic virtuoso played no small role in the movie’s success. His refreshingly honest, underproduced visual aesthetic won him a second Oscar at the 73rd annual Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of suburban American drug culture...
...newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small-time screenwriter and big-time partier. After only a few days, Paula was again uprooted and sent to live with a near stranger, Mrs. Cummings, after her mother, Elsie, issued an ultimatum: “Either she goes...