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...knew that, sometimes, nothing looks so good on the giant Festival Palais screen as a bad Hollywood movie. In 1992 the Opening Night entry was Basic Instinct, that chicly sleazy sex-and-violence thriller starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences...
...huzzahs continued. The crowd was paying tribute not only to a funny, sometimes dark, always affecting story of surviving the worst through a sense of humor, but to Satrapi herself - for being not only the creator of this beguiling film but for having put her own life on screen...
...Orphanage is to believe in the power of images to evoke emotions. Bayona, working in the old-dark-house genre, is already a master of creepy mood and gorgeous visions. The colors in the house are rich browns, until night falls and a luscious darkness stripes the screen. Bayona sets his camera relentlessly gliding, creeping, tracking toward the eeriest mystery, or backing away from it to reflect our fear. He loves to lead us on treasure hunts and into secret compartments: doors and drawers, which may suddenly burst open or slam shut, and yet another, unknown portal, hidden behind wallpaper...
...films, for Spielberg's DreamWorks studio, will be produced in full digital 3-D using performance-capture technology, which takes points of reference from real-life subjects and transfers them to animated characters on the screen. Spielberg and Jackson will each direct at least one movie; there is no word yet on who will helm the third...
...Tintin's arrival in Tinseltown is perhaps inevitable: his popularity as a children's literary hero rivals that of other recent transitions from the page to the screen, including Harry Potter, Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings...