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...with the voice. I thought it was a pretty good character." He performed the monologue as part of a one-man show, then filmed it as a short that he used to raise money for the feature. The full-length Sling Blade was made for $1 million. Last year Miramax Films bought it for $10 million and signed Thornton to a three-picture deal...
Here's a quick way to tell you're watching a mid-1990s independent film: PARKER POSEY is in it. The poised but perky 28-year-old was the toast of last week's Sundance Film Festival, appearing in three films, one of which Miramax bought for $2 million. Posey's characters range from a wisecracking temp to a chain-smoking music publicist to a mentally ill woman with a Jackie O. fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre...
...Another Miramax import, the film tracks the misadventures of some twentysomethings in Scotland, nice little punks in their own special ways. The movie's humble narrator is Renton (Ewan McGregor), heroin addict by zealous choice, as he informs us in sympathetically bitter intonations...
...make a "postmodern" Western? You start, if director Jim Jarmusch is any guide, by throwing out the term "postmodern." You also make the plot and dialogue incidental, while giving such elements as setting and soundtrack full narrative weight. In a recent interview with The Crimson, Jarmusch described his latest Miramax release, "Dead Man," as an "acid Western," a term perhaps appropriate to a film which takes the Western idiom and stretches it to its most surreal limits...
Well, there you have it. Stay tuned next Monday to see who wins. But remember, this year, anything goes. As Miramax head Harvey Weinstein said, "We're going to put the bookmakers out of business this year." So, dear reader, you ask, what did Yours Truly put down on her Harvard Dining Services Oscar ballot? Two words: multiple ballots...