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...apply to the Farrelly brothers' dumb-down of the Neil Simon-Elaine May Heartbreak Kid, which I was unkind to last week. But it doesn't work on Sleuth, an art-house effort with more modest box office aspirations, a much loftier collection of talent, on and off screen - and, you'd think, an unwreckable scenario...
...Mankiewicz and the urban sophisticates he wrote about, words were swords in the duel of wits. He thought of himself as a screen playwright, and Hollywood as Broadway West: films were theater in closeup. (Academy voters apparently agreed with Mankiewicz: they named him best director as well as best writer for Three Wives and Eve.) No question, he loved the sound of his own authorial voice; it had an overripe eloquence that could beguile any viewer-listener. And when he turned plays into films - producing Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story or directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - he could fall...
...There were complications in the family, and also a lot of balancing of sensitivities and responsibility in telling the story.”Nevertheless, Penn insisted that the life of Christopher McCandless, the film’s protagonist, make it to the big screen, saying that audiences needed to witness McCandless’s pursuit of a meaningful life beyond the conventions of society. “There are those who will look at this as a spoiled rich kid who ought not have to put himself and his family’s emotions in peril,” said...
Last month, Shuttleboy.com announced that the site, which has allowed students to find shuttle times online since 1998, now offers a text messaging function. In March, Cabot House installed an LED screen in the dining hall that counts down the time to the next shuttle...
...marks the fifth anniversary of the Boston Fantastic Film Festival, held at the Brattle Theatre. The brainchild of Ned Hinkle, the Theatre’s Creative Director, the genre-based film festival was created to screen films that may not otherwise be shown in the Boston area. In the past, it has been an early venue for national mega-hits, and this year’s fest promises to offer at least one film that’s likely to make viewers’ skin crawl with terror. “[The festival] presents a combination of horror...