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...Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking, Robb Moss says Subrin was chosen “because her work is interesting and fresh.” He explains, “She works at creating images that flow off of each other to create an idea rather than strictly following the fiction plot...
...dynamic script and creative staging contributed to this weekend’s insightful and polished performance of Private Eyes. Exploring the division between truth and falsity, imagination and reality, the intriguing plot kept the audience both amused and guessing. An innovative reframing of the classic love triangle between leading lady, director and leading man, this staging was refreshingly conscious of its niche as part-parody, part-remake...
...proof of his willingness to be thought insane, Depp's first post-Pirates movie is Secret Window, in theaters this Friday. He plays Mort Rainey, a successful writer being stalked by a psychotic dairy farmer. Before the movie ends, for reasons too crucial to the plot to fully explain, Mort manically consumes the equivalent of Iowa's annual corn harvest. But that's not the crazy part. "Much of the first half of the movie is just Mort in a cabin by himself not doing things," says Secret Window's writer-director, David Koepp, a man you would expect...
...movie focusing on sexy teenagers in 1968 Paris who are obsessed with movies, sex and politics, in that order, from the director of Last Tango In Paris. The plot begins with Matthew (Leonardo DiCaprio look-alike Michael Pitt) encountering Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) at the protest of the closing of the French cinemathéque, the classic movie theater where these three cinephiles have spent many an afternoon. Soon, Matthew is invited to stay at Isabelle and Theo’s house while their parents are away. Movie-inspired sexual games ensue. One of the more interesting...
...Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep (in a supporting role, no less), makes his work all the more admirable. I defy you to name another working screenwriter who has invented a film premise as consistently innovative as Being John Malkovich, a screenplay as audacious as Adaptation, or a plot structure that is as simultaneously accessible and convoluted as Confessions of a Dangerous Mind...