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...jury, headed by actress Liv Ullmann, gave the Palme d'Or to Nanni Moretti's family drama The Son's Room; second prize and both actor awards to Michael Haneke's sexual war of wills The Piano Teacher; the screenplay citation to a Bosnian film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land; and director laurels to two Americans, David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. and Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. Worthy films all - but the best of a mediocre bunch...
Only one thing about this genial and savage film must sadden us: it is the first-produced feature screenplay by a writer named Stan Seidel, who died while the movie was in post-production. His was, obviously, a rare sensibility, unpredictable, unsentimental, unsparing and, most important, unlike anyone else's. Bless his memory. See his movie...
...robot (Haley Joel Osment) and his quest to becoming what movie teasers have described as "something more." Many people look forward to A.I.'s June 29th summer release either because it is Steven Spielberg's next movie or because it would have been Stanley Kubric's last. Spielberg's screenplay was based upon Stanley Kubric's 80-page treatment of a short story by Brian Aldiss, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long. In addition to starring America's favorite child actor Osment, this film will also star Jude Law as Gigolo Joe, Jake Thomas as Martin Swinton, William Hurt, France...
...screen at a star-infested movie premiere, a writer sat down alone and started to write. This writer labored for months or years, creating the characters, tweaking the dialogue, researching the setting, lining up an agent—all in anticipation of the moment when the screenplay is sold and the writer is left behind, usually without any creative say over how the movie is changed and the script is rewritten. By the time the film premieres, the writer is usually forgotten—the anonymity of writers at the Academy Awards stands as proof...
...intricately structured screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga keeps reverting, ever more intimately and horrifically, to that crash, not merely showing it as the major figures in three intertwined stories experience it but also letting us see their lives prior to and after the disaster that radically reshapes their fates. Inarritu, 37, who has made hundreds of TV commercials in Mexico City, consciously intends his movie to be a portrait of his "dangerous, beautiful" hometown. The film is muy espanol, a portrait that blends harsh realism with a curious tenderness. It is also muy Bunuel, but without his conscious surrealism...