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...basketball court, practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir the audience, and not just the young girls, to a collective rapturous sigh. (See pictures of Efron's career...
...summer" film feast begins in early May. (This year's Maytime blockbuster hopefuls: Wolverine, Star Trek, Angels & Demons, Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum; and those are just the major sequels, prequels and remakes.) The last weekend in April is a kind of movie doggie day care, where Hollywood stashes its unwanted mutts until they can be unleashed on DVD. Given the low-rent release date of Obsessed, and Sony Screen Gems' refusal to screen it for critics, industry analysts predicted an opening weekend of $15-17 million. Yet the movie, which pairs Knowles with The Wire's Idris...
...between the insipidness of a “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and the painful seriousness of a “Revolutionary Road.” “State of Play” is simply smart entertainment, which seems to have become something of a rarity in Hollywood. —Staff writer Claire J. Saffitz can be reached at csaffitz@fas.harvard.edu...
...project after receiving an Artist Development Fellowship (ADF) in 2007. “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” was primarily shot and produced in the Boston area. With a conventional script, the black-and-white movie pays homage to the timeless formula of an old Hollywood musical and romance set against a backdrop of a roaring jazz scene. Yet Chazelle reinterprets the genre by filming the movie with an unorthodox, and often labor-intensive, technique. “I tried to approach the genre of the musical in a documentary way by using the lives...
...entire life.A sequel to “Less Than Zero” should hit bookstores in 2010, and production has already begun on the film version of Ellis’s latest novel, the twistedly autobiographical “Lunar Park.” Neither the literary nor the Hollywood establishment is afraid of him anymore. The one has developed a taste for Ellis’s blood type, and the other has figured out how to slash his work into compliance—which is a shame. Ellis works best when he’s shocking. When he?...