Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movies will certainly be a boon for independent film- makers, who, thanks to the plunging cost of digital video cameras, powerful PCs and editing software, are already making decent films on modest budgets. Metafilmics producer Barnet Bain expects Quantum to cost around $3 million to shoot--way below the Hollywood average of $50 million a picture. That will enable the company to finance the project privately...
...ends up mothering half a dozen lost souls. She is Mother Courage, Mother Teresa and your mom on her very best day. But All About My Mother also gives the viewer reasons to laugh and cheer. It brims with life; it has more convulsive plot twists than any recent Hollywood movie; it parades a fistful of seductive Spanish stars (Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan); it shows Almodovar, the Spanish writer-director best known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in full emotional and cinematic maturity, with no loss of his early pansexual pizazz. Here...
...Broadway is getting pretty blase about the big names from Hollywood--Nicole Kidman, Helen Hunt, Christian Slater--who keep showing up to prove they're more than just flickers on a screen. Harrelson is not a stranger to New York City theater (his first break was as an understudy in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues in 1984), but he's far better known as a star of TV (Cheers) and film (Natural Born Killers). So can he cut it as the eponymous con man of N. Richard Nash's 1954 drama, being revived by the Roundabout Theatre? It's this...
...Blair Witch Project leaves things unsaid, undone and unanswered [CINEMA, Aug. 16]. One truly gets scared by not knowing everything. Whether by design or accident, the makers of this film have created a movie that lets the audience use two things that Hollywood rarely engages: intelligence and imagination. CHRIS BYZEWSKI San Diego...
...Freddie Kruger! Retire the mask, put down the ax and take a lesson on how real horror evolves! Nothing so purely frightening has happened in a good 30 years. I have never understood why contemporary Hollywood's "Oooh--scary!" people wouldn't support the proved fact that the unseen beast is the most hair raising of all. Hail to Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez for following their instincts and not the usual commercial formula. AMANDA STEAD GHIO Warren, Conn...