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...Antoine de Caunes will make his directing debut with the release of Monsieur N. , a historical thriller about the final years of Napoleon's life. Later in 2003, award-winning director Patrice Chéreau will start production on a Napoleonic film with a script he wrote for Al Pacino, who will play the lead...
TIME's Jeffrey Ressner tells us where to go in SANTA MONICA for BREAKFAST: The Broadway Deli, at Broadway and Third St., where De Niro and Pacino faced off in the movie Heat. A ONE-HOUR WALK: Along Ocean Ave. at sunset, past Palisades Park, the amusement-park rides on Santa Monica Pier and the bike path with hordes of Roller Bladers. A CULTURAL FIX: Bergamot Station, a former railway terminal that's now a hip arts center filled with galleries showing world-class artists and area favorites. A LOCAL TASTE: Chez Jay's, a funky beachside shack that...
...trouble with movies is movie stars. They hate their trailers; they hate their scripts; they especially dislike directors like Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino)--once aspiring, now merely woebegone. He yearns to replace his current star, a marvelously hateful Winona Ryder, with a more pliable model. A few keystrokes using a new computer program--click, click, click--and--presto!--he has the perfectly beautiful but only virtually real Simone (a digitally modified Rachel Roberts...
Poor Viktor. He does his best to turn Simone into something Garbo-like, but that's hard to do when the media are in one of their postmodern feeding frenzies. He's soon running around like a fugitive in a three-door farce. Pacino, with his sad, baggy eyes and slightly depressed air, is perfect as the harassed auteur of his own misery. And writer-director Andrew Nicoll is a visually witty operative with a nice ear for the verbal side of Hollywood lunacy as well. Sure, Simone will put you in mind of Wag the Dog, in which...
...Hollywood history), there's also a healthy menu of serious studio movies and smart independent comedies and dramas that audiences are embracing. Last month the searing adultery drama Unfaithful opened between Spider-Man and Star Wars and has held on well at the box office. The R-rated Al Pacino thriller Insomnia has also done well. The unassuming but endearing indie comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding has found an audience, with minimal advertising and generous word of mouth. And Miramax is betting against the glut of blockbusters with four art-house movies this summer, including Oscar Wilde...