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...lively Amanda Peet (in reality, an over-the-hill 31)--to her mother's beach house, only to keel over with a heart attack as soon as the fun starts. His girlfriend promptly scampers back to the city, leaving him in the care of her divorced mom Erica (Diane Keaton), a tough-minded, successful playwright with no patience whatsoever for Harry and his boyish high jinks. But as the two are forced into each other's company, Harry sheds his lifelong bias against older women and Erica her carefully constructed emotional barriers. It's a December-December romance...
Take writer-director Nancy Meyers' Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays Harry, an aging playboy who happens to catch a glimpse of his young girlfriend's mom (Diane Keaton) in the nude. What with her feminist overachieving and all, she has become something of a prune, sexually speaking. But he has his charms, and one rainy day she succumbs to them. Nothing wrong with that. Their sex scene, despite what Meyers reports as a certain understandable shyness by her players, is agreeably managed. What's less agreeable is this movie's smugness. It's so pleased...
...glides shoreward, the ship is taking on water and has nearly sunk by the time it reaches land--allowing Jack to step lithely, blithely and with Astaire timing from the crow's nest onto the Port Royal dock. This little scene, reminiscent of a visual gag in a Buster Keaton silent comedy, comes at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, cuing audiences to the suspense, grace and fun of the next two hours...
From the medium's infancy, when the Keystone Kops commandeered the streets of Los Angeles, car chases provided the purest vicarious thrill. Silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd raised vehicular mayhem to comic art. Alfred Hitchcock fashioned suspenseful laughs by letting an inebriated Cary Grant try driving down a windy road in North by Northwest--and predatory poignancy when James Stewart obsessively tails Kim Novak in Vertigo...
...movies on the road. He dispatched eight teams of projectionists around the country in what he calls cinema caravans-cars loaded with video projectors, amplifiers and screens-which stopped in every town to show not only the educational films but also old classics such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reels. The outdoor screenings were a hit, and the projectionists stayed up late into the nights, showing the movies over and over. "My people have been waiting such a long time to laugh after so much suffering and tragedy," says Barmak. "Our technical guys cried. It was the first time...