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...director Michel Gondry’s latest effort, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the film, a company named Lacuna Incorporated has acquired the technology to erase the foul taste of a past partner. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers this after tracing a note to ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), asking mutual friends not to raise his name in conversation with her. Since the ex is not supposed to see these notes, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), the inventor of the treatment and the founder of Lacuna, agrees to inform Joel of the company’s function immediately...
...conflicted. Fresh off the boat from a rubber plantation in Malaysia, young Xiao Jie (living anim? Lee Sinjie) dreams of Mando-pop stardom, only to have her career derailed by a depressive manager (Anthony Wong, dressed like an Iron Maiden roadie) and her heart hijacked by her singing partner (Kate Yeung), who takes more than a professional interest in her. Xiang Xiang (Liu) is a jaded flight attendant with Bridget Jones problems: lots of men to date, none to come home to. And then there's freshly divorced Lily (Chang), who gets back into the swing of the single life...
...long-awaited blossoming of a crop of big-name indies. The March 19th release Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is tops on my list; I’ve watched that trailer a dozen times over and it still discombobulates me whenever I see Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet bathing in a kitchen sink (why is that sink so big?) or Mark Ruffalo and Kirsten Dunst dancing in their underwear (why is Kirsten Dunst not more often dancing in her underwear?). Throw in Charlie Kaufman, the most reliable screenwriter functioning in Hollywood today, and the inspired use of ELO?...
...Glickman and Mazzoli offered lessons from political experience, Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), and Carol Tobias, political director of the National Right to Life Committee, each advocated an ideological position. Michelman, drawing nods and occasional applause, railed against the “Republican effort to undo the right to choose and the right of privacy.” To the loudest applause of the night, she said that deciding what a woman can do with her body is “not the position of a legislative body, with all due respect...
Once Gondry had secured Sunshine’s cast—which also includes Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood and Mark Ruffalo—Kaufman says he made no effort to re-tailor his script to their dimensions. Speaking now of the fine points of shooting the film, he continues to use characters’ script names rather than those of the actors who play them...