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...when there’s some kind of small conflict about something—then I would think about how my dad would handle this. And on this movie, with great directors like Garry Marshall and Harold Ramis on the set, you’re always in student mode. You hope you never stop being in student mode, and you gotta ask those questions, especially when you’re surrounded by great comedy directors...
...director of this noble weepie, Nelson so overuses visual tricks--zooms, zip pans and multiple perspectives on a simple scene--that she turns the viewer into an exasperated parent; this is a directorial style in need of a spanking. As co-writer, she falls into the truckling-and-treacling mode evident in her script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film...
...Remember" (1925) Ella Fitzgerald (1958) on "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook." Berlin's dirge of romantic betrayal - the we-had-sex-now-you're-gone mode reworked by Goffin and King in "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" - gets a beautiful, post-virginal reading by Fitzgerald. Compare this with Billie Holiday's version: she loved, she lost, she doesn't give a shit...
...girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment--and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...