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...read by intuition. Acquaintance with her collage of sources is not a prerequisite for appreciating her poetry, although familiarity with literary form enriches the experience. “Decreation,” her first book in the last five years, is a hybrid of poetry, essay, libretto, screenplay, oratorio, and illustration...
...film grasps for salvation in many enjoyable moments, but never regains the momentum of the opening scenes. While Scott’s attempt to get meta with the reality television show subplot is obnoxious, Walken, in typical form, gives a hilarious cameo. The screenplay can be quite strong and very funny, but beats its jokes to death—the career-resuscitating turn from Brian Austen Green of “90210” is constantly greeted with some permutation of: “Is that the guy from 90210? He has not aged well...
...year-old self. “The night before we shot [the execution scene], I was doing the shot list in my room,” says director Luis Mandoki in an interview with The Harvard Crimson. Mandoki helped Torres turn his draft into a completed screenplay. “I woke him up, and said, ‘please tell me this didn’t happen,’ and I saw his eyes welling up with tears.”No one doubts, of course, that events like this one did happen. The war killed...
...Never mind their roles and the standards set by Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher; Russo is too old for McConaughey, period. Although Pacino’s genuine performance and hilarious one-liners prevent the movie from hitting snake-eyes, the canned dialogue kills the shot at lucky sevens. The screenplay extends the constant betting metaphors way too far: when Toni says, “You played me, Walter. You were gambling with me that night, Walter, you were gambling with me,” no one watching will take her seriously. Even though “Two for the Money?...
...gave me a troll doll at graduation; he commented that he liked my outfit; he asked my friend if I might be interested in him. Then things started to get weird. He called me everyday—five times—and left messages. He wrote a screenplay and read it to me—and then told me it was about me and him, and our future life together. Ok, so he wasn’t exactly sane. But the point is each and every one of us now has the potential to become a closet stalker?...