Word: redux
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...incentive to post favorable comments. Meanwhile, JoeytheFilmGeek and the Flick Filosopher write screenplays, which raises the question of whether they can objectively review product by the same film studios they might hope to interest in their scripts. In her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the Flick Filosopher even mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully to Coppola's company. Drew McWeeny, an aspiring screenwriter who reviews for AintItCool as "Moriarty," insists that although he too is trying to sell the studios his work, "I'm not going to sugarcoat my reviews" of studio releases...
Being Coppola--sire of the Godfather films, mogul of his own Zoetrope studio, vintner and publisher, capo di tutti capi of the Movie Brat generation--he would not come up with any old director's cut. Apocalypse Now Redux is more than a tinkering, with a brief scene added here, some computer effects daubed in there. It is a complete recutting of the original 5-hr. assemblage; the 2 1/2-hr. running time of the 1979 version has been expanded to include 53 minutes of previously unshown footage. If any recut can be a "new" movie, this one is--vivid, harrowing...
...changed since the '70s, and not for the better. The artistic bar is not only low, it's practically closed. Back then filmmakers were addicted to audacity; they wanted to make both art and waves. Now they are craftsmen who want to make a bundle. In this airless atmosphere, Redux is both a reminder of American cinema's last glory days and a rebuke to the timid present. Maybe Apocalypse Now wasn't the best movie of 1979, but Redux is surely the film to beat...
...Motor-voter redux: Voting is fun again! Bring your stamped voter I.D. card to any participating fast food restaurant and get a free child-size soda in a collectible "I voted and I can drive...
...Aside from the Hong Kong affair, though, this Cannes was relatively star-starved. Everyone wasn't there. Jack Nicholson (The Pledge), Cameron Diaz (Shrek) and Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now Redux) all had major movies on display, but none of them showed. This was a festival of films, not photo ops, and even on screen the magic was in short supply...