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...shots, placements that are either radically high or low - they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material. And why should he? The statecraft of 400 years ago is not the stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing, which is, truth to tell, no more than a flirtation without a fruition. Blanchett and Owen do what they can with it - she is alternately coy and bawdy; he is blunt, refreshingly lacking...
...them; he knew that marquee names would help raise financing and lure audiences. He would go for the hot new actor: Delon after Rocco and His Brothers, Richard Harris after This Sporting Life, David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave in their first bloom for Blowup and later, in 1975, Jack Nicholson for The Passenger...
...presenting legendary�Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1995, Jack Nicholson said that in silence, the director "found metaphors that illuminate the silent places in our hearts." In films like Blow-Up, L'Avventura and La Notte, Antonioni captured inner lives of alienation and angst with long, lingering takes and a paucity of dialogue and action. Critics hailed him as the "hero of the highbrows." But average moviegoers were so confused they once reputedly chased him at the Cannes Film Festival, demanding plot explanations. Antonioni was content with his brainy reputation--and his lack of mass...
...think we know what OCD is, and most of the time we're all wrong. It's the nervous guy from Monk; it's cranky Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. In the end, though, things usually work out for them. They even get the girl, who sees them as a kind of adorable emotional fixer-upper...
...many vets, Nicholson, who had served in Vietnam, never strenuously pushed their interests. "He's not the most outgoing guy, and in this business that becomes a negative," said Bob Wallace of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Bobby Muller of Veterans of America said Nicholson "consistently deferred to the political considerations of the Bush Administration, instead of what he should have done as an advocate for his country's veterans...