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...good for the real estate business. These are properties that are meant to be held onto." The new Italian owners of the Flatiron say they're in for the long haul and plan to seek city approval for a new project to illuminate the exterior by Vittorio Storaro, the Oscar-winning director of photography for Apocalypse Now and Little Buddha. Just a touch more glamour, perhaps, for the real-life publishing-company employees who occupy its offices - not to mention Peter Parker and his Daily Bugle colleagues...
...winner of a whole flock of minor awards and a leading Oscar candidate, The Bridge on the River Kwai has acquired an undeserved reputation for “significance.” The only way it could “mean” anything very important would be as a comment on various attitudes toward war or toward fine points of law and principle. But since the spokesman for one attitude is unspeakably stupid if not downright insane, the “issue” which the film discusses is no issue at all. We are expected to feel...
...future looks cloudy. With a director and star who are both Oscar winners, it was the most eagerly anticipated film in the competition. But as a 4-1/2-hour, two-part recounting of Guevara's rebel campaigns in the Cuban and Bolivian jungles, it was also the most dreaded. Neither prediction was quite accurate. The movie doesn't enthrall, nor does it outrage. It simply disappoints, at great length. Except for one zesty confrontation at the United Nations, the film is doggedly antidramatic. At a reported $60 million budget, Che is too expensive to be relegated to art houses...
...capable of making something as funny as the great cross-dressing farce, Tootsie, or as dark as his take on depression-era America, They Shoot Horses Don't They? But his filmography is marked most indelibly by the lush romanticism of Out of Africa (for which he won the Oscar) on the one hand, and by taut thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and The Firm on the other. It can be argued that the contradiction between those two modes is more apparent than real. High romance disorders the spirits of those who succumb to it; the implicit paranoia...
Eastwood, who directed Penn to an Oscar in Mystic River, and del Toro, who co-starred with Penn in 21 Grams, were the only two stars of the American film industry to be given awards. Cannes counts on Hollywood to bring glamor to the Riviera, with non-competition movies like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona. But when the Jury gets down to business, art wins out over entertainment. Indeed, for the second year in a row, not a single English-language movie was honored at Cannes...