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...well as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. Y Tu Mam? También (And Your Mother Too) - a biting allegory of Mexico's effete ruling class, told via a sex-soaked road trip - is up for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar; and for many Mexicans, native daughter Salma Hayek's Best Actress nomination for Frida counts as another south-of-the-border coup. These films are worth the hype, and then some. And for once, they have plenty of regional company. Years used to separate successes like Argentina's The Official...
...Second City, did about her Old World family meeting her Hispanic husband. It then evolved into a one-woman play that Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, saw in 1997. Wilson approached Vardalos and suggested turning the play into a movie. Vardalos was one step head, having already written a screenplay. It took more than four years to get a studio to make and distribute the film, in part because Wilson refused to give the Vardalos role to another actress. Meanwhile, the day before 9/11, Vardalos, Wilson and executive producer Marsh McCall (Just Shoot Me and a head writer for Conan...
CITIZEN KANE. Citizen Kane was an instant classic upon its 1941 release. The American Film Institute named it the best movie made—ever. Yet the film was an epic flop at the Academy Awards, converting just one of its nine nominations, taking the award for Best Original Screenplay. (WWII propaganda classic Mrs. Miniver swept the top prizes.) Citizen Kane, it seems, has gotten the last laugh. Secretary, take heart. Citizen Kane screens March...
...with older stars like Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman. But her screen credits (Barbarian Queen) were not up to that level. Friends described her as always ready to serve as "arm candy"--that is, a pretty date--to industry players, in hopes of landing a role, selling a screenplay idea or hustling a job on a commercial. Says Hall: "She was positive on the outside, but in the past few years she struggled to make car payments." And she had entered...
...tries to be with the woman when he's not at his dying father's bedside. Since the man is played by Suleiman, 42, and his lover by his ex-lover, Palestinian journalist Manal Khader, and since Suleiman's father did die as he was writing the screenplay, this is clearly a kind of autobiographical satire. "Cinema is a form of striptease for me," says Suleiman. "I jot down very personal moments of everyday life when they tickle me. There is no message. The minute I try to preconceive one, I have failed...