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...verbatim the line the Martians say to Woody Allen in Stardust Memories: 'You know, we like your earlier, funnier films.'" It's no surprise that Spielberg quoted Allen; the two great filmmakers breathe the same ether. My living room is graced with two film posters, one for Spielberg's Schindler's List, the other for Allen's Shadows and Fog. I look at them to remind myself of the hope and magic that great directors can bring to an audience...
...Next time someone tells you TV is a poor cousin to the movies, show them Hotel Rwanda, then this harrowing, complex story of the same genocide--if they can stand it. Don Cheadle's performance notwithstanding, Hotel Rwanda ultimately fell back on the Schindler's-List template of one-good-man-against-the-world Hollywood uplift. April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. Equally important, this movie...
...THINK THIS FILM WILL DO ANY GOOD? I've never, ever made a movie where I said I'm making this picture because the message can do some good for the world--even when I made Schindler's List. I was terrified that it was going to do the opposite of good. I thought perhaps it might bring shame to the memory of those who didn't survive the Holocaust--and even worse to those who did. I made the picture out of just pure wanting to get that story told. I thought it was important that at least...
Skoll, who sees Participant as a way to straddle the line between business and philanthropy, is encouraged by the track record of other movies with a message that have achieved commercial success, such as Schindler's List, Gandhi and Hotel Rwanda. Persuading big- name stars like Frances McDormand and Charlize Theron to work on feel-good projects for a fledgling studio was a hurdle at first. "In the early days, we spent a lot of time trying to find people who were interested in what we were doing," he says. "Now we are inundated with people coming to us--actors...
Spielberg has brought humor, tears, joy, pain, love and every other conceivable emotion to audiences all over the world, and he has sent a message along with his entertainment. Schindler's List speaks for itself as superb moviemaking...