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...TERRY SEMEL says there is a script and even storyboards completed for the movie. Normally, Kubrick never did storyboards--he preferred to let movies develop over a long period--but he had to do them for AI, which mixes computer-generated figures with human actors. As with all things Kubrickian, the story line is a bit of a mystery. Semel describes it as "a boy in space and artificial intelligence," while Kubrick's friend and producer on Eyes, Jan Harlan, says it's "a study of a society well in the future where you cannot have a child without...
Michael Ritchie's direction is virtuosic, but cold for my taste, and given to too many cheap Kubrickian effects. The people in his crowds are apt to be repulsive, the workers in his campaign hallways too obviously on the make. His camera movements are both straightforward and slickly calculated...
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