Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1996, Lucas invited a few trusted souls from Industrial Light & Magic, his 14-Oscar-winning special-effects unit, up to his Skywalker Ranch, north of San Francisco, and showed them 3,500 storyboards for the new film. Battle scenes, racing scenes, parades--all with thousands of characters in each shot and all to be computer generated. "Crew members said, 'It's too many shots. How are we going to do this?'" recalls ILM visual-effects supervisor John Knoll. "It was kind of scary...
...life will be like. Although it is set in 1977 and refers to the rebellious rhetoric of the '60s, the film tells a story that has a place in every generation. The situation presented to the audience demands sympathy and recognition. With the versatile Christian Bale as Chris and Oscar nominee Emily Watson as his levelheaded wife Marion, Metroland delivers a refreshing and insightful examination of the regret that inevitably comes with the choices we make in life. While the film has many things in its favor, such as wonderfully unaffected acting and a skillfully adapted script, the most valuable...
...Award-nominated World War II epic _The Thin Red Line_, Nick Falzone is himself unrespectable as a husband and a controller. Cate Blanchett (_Elizabeth_, _Oscar and Lucinda_) is Connie Falzone, Nick's loyal wife who lives an unsettled life. Though a minor character in terms of plot, Connie's seeming devotion is unconvincing (one can only hope Cate accepted this role before filming the remarkable _Elizabeth...
Also on the upside, despite the identity crisis, Shakespeare's royalties have skyrocketed much as Jane Austen's did a few years ago as every Hollywood producer scrambles to make good on the success of Oscar hit "Shakespeare in Love." To be sure, that comedy misappropriated a few of the sonnets for dramatic purposes, but it brought lines from "Romeo and Juliet" to the screen and was filmed on a set similar to the Bard's old haunt, The Globe Theatre, recently rebuilt in London. "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a serious effort at bringing an entire play of Shakespeare...
...most politicians, are not likely to stand the test of time. Would an economist have been selected 10 years ago, shortly after Black Monday and on the eve of a major recession? I doubt it. By contrast, Ralph Ellison (Commencement speaker in 1974) will always be a great novelist, Oscar Arias (speaker in 1988) will always be a crusader for peace and Colin Powell (speaker in 1993) will always be a military hero...