Word: multiplex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is the sound of Dench understatement in action. When she appears onscreen as the regal, nay, godlike, Elizabeth--with skeletally white skin, burning eyes and all aquiver in that bejeweled and befeathered costume like some sort of monstrous dragonfly--multiplex audiences have erupted in cheers. With barely 10 minutes onscreen, she makes her terrifyingly omniscient Elizabeth pivotal to the film, with players and viewers alike perched breathlessly on her every word. Dench attributes this potency not to her own skill but to the deference the film's other characters show her. John Madden, who directed her in both...
Sound familiar? Didn't you see this on the screen just last weekend at your local multiplex? Toms River could easily be a sequel to A Civil Action, the new movie based on the best-selling nonfiction book by the same name. Starring John Travolta as Schlichtmann, A Civil Action is a compelling tale of how the federal courts chewed up and spat out the cocky lawyer and the working-class families he represented in a suit that charged large industrial polluters with contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Mass. Expenses mounted so fast that Schlichtmann lost his Porsche...
...catchy populist name. That effortless user interface. Those millions of free starter discs. Those infamous chat rooms. And, of course, that cheerful robot chirping, "You've got mail" (now the title of a romantic comedy coming soon, via Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and two humming laptops, to a multiplex near...
Indeed. A revolution is under way in animation. The terrain is your local multiplex, and the insurgents are goateed, stock-optioned tech-heads armed with graphics software and high-powered workstations. Once upon a time, animated movies were the sole domain of winsome beauties and fearsome beasts, all lovingly drawn by hand. That era ended three years ago this month with the release of Toy Story, the first purely computer-generated feature and the only animated film to near the $200 million box-office mark since 1994's The Lion King...
This is show business at its most elemental. The annual Independent Feature Film Market, which took place last month at a Manhattan multiplex, typically features some 200 feature-length movies (many not yet even finished) competing for investors, distributors, exposure, oxygen, life. With an atmosphere of equal parts hubris and desperation, it is a cross between a trade show, a film festival and a bazaar, and a far cry from what most people envision when they think of independent film: Matt Damon smoking cigars at a Miramax Oscar party. Since I had long been curious about the unsung breadth...