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...offering their audiences a greater message--some sort of connection to our times--this movie tries to illustrate tragic love but sometimes feels like no more than the child of extravagant producers and a director yearning to live out his fantasy of bringing an epic to the screen. What results is a movie that is "nice"--entirely innocuous, in fact--but fails to sweep you away (except with regards to its leading...
Well, maybe next time. After all, there were plans for animating Firebird soon after the original film was released; Stravinsky saw Disney's take on The Rite of Spring, liked it and gave Disney the rights to other pieces. "Good ideas will always find their way to the screen," says Peter Schneider, Disney Studios boss. Or to some other part of the Magic Kingdom. Roy talks of putting the Rachmaninoff piece, which was fully storyboarded before it was scratched, in Disneyland's CircleVision pavilion. With a budget estimated at $85 million (some skeptics say it's nearly twice that amount...
...matches are held in some of the most meticulously rendered backdrops ever presented on a computer screen. I found it hard to play without gawking. The lighting! The mist! The way bullets whiz through water! It feels like you're reliving the first half-hour of Saving Private Ryan--except, surprisingly, it's not as gory...
...statement made by Bill Gates in his talk with TIME [INTERVIEW, Nov. 22] clearly shows how the Microsoft Ceo thinks. When asked about giving computer makers the right to tailor the opening screen, Gates said, "That's like saying you have a product called TIME magazine, but one distributor gets to rip out ads, and another one rips out some articles and puts in new ones." Gates' logic in this case is faulty because of the metaphor he selected. The Windows operating system is akin to the printing press rather than to TIME magazine. How would TIME feel if there...
...This meditation on the value of film and imagination follows a Depression-era housewife (Mia Farrow) who goes to the pictures for escapism and one day finds that her favorite movie character (Jeff Daniels) has somehow escaped from the screen and into her life. The movie gets unexpected poignancy out of its superb comic setup and shares with Sweet and Lowdown Allens talent for recreating...