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...comes between the actor, the pure product and audience," says Vinterberg. "That was maybe the highest creative moment in my life." Von Trier and Vinterberg only made one Dogme film each, but they extended the invitation to other Danish directors they thought could follow the rules and make movie magic. The 10th Danish Dogme film, In Your Hands (which opens in Britain this week), is set in a women's prison and examines what happens when a chaplain who's losing her faith meets an inmate who can heal with her touch. Like most Dogme directors, In Your Hands' Annette...
...longer I go on, the farther I get away from it, the more I’m starting to get a perspective of what was happening there—the magic, I guess,” he adds...
...blah. Just remember what it was like to watch “Looney Tunes” or “Power Rangers”—you laughed when people got hurt in goofy ways, you jumped up and down with excitement when two guys were totally using magic powers against each other, and you ignored the stuff you didn’t understand. And you had the time of your life...
Obviously the Disney people hoped to accomplish a similar sort of generic revivification for younger children with One Magic Christmas, which is about a little girl's attempt to get her dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel
...force us to rethink that which we have long imagined ourselves to “know.” Sometimes these moments are as trivial as coming to grips with the reality that Santa Claus is a mere winter myth, conjured to add an extra degree of excitement and magic to the Christmas holidays. Oftentimes, however, this type of experience can be much more undermining of one’s very foundations—whether they be political, spiritual, moral, or otherwise. These particular moments compel us to reassess the ideas that inform us, the relationships that bind...