Word: serioso
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Most directors with a left-field mega-hit would instantly crank out another picture in the same genre. Not Damiano. He used his cash, and cachet, from his silly porno comedy to make a super-serioso drama. Reading the script of Devil in Miss Jones, Reems told his friend: "Gerry, it's a steal. This is No Exit in its thinnest disguise." To which Damiano replied: "Well, what do you expect? I wrote it in a weekend." Though Devil was a substantial box-office hit, Spelvin notes that "it was not really a very successful porno film. I mean, guys...
...short lead time may make the studios rethink their bizarre habit of backloading their big movies, piling up the serioso films at year's end. The reality is a traffic jam of worthy product. With just a few weeks between New Year's Day and the nominations, movie people will have to take a chance and release their Oscar hopefuls earlier--in July, like this year's Best Picture nominee Seabiscuit, or in May, like 2001's top prizewinner, Gladiator. That way, the DVDs and videos (which account for an imposing 60% of movie revenue) would be in the stores...
...interested in just dazzling with the ugliest parts of humanity and the quick fix." Penn loved the camaraderie of the Boston location where Mystic River was shot. He also liked Eastwood's relaxed control on the set, the director's ability to get first-take perfection from some very serioso thespians, including co-stars Linney, Laurence Fishburne and Marcia Gay Harden...
...house toga party. Or, as Wollen says: "They were like little islands within the rest of the film. But they were very important to him because it was a way of showing the breadth and variety of the forms of dance." Kelly finally did a whole movie in the serioso mode: "Invitation to the Dance," shot in Europe in 1952 with French, English and Russian ballet stars. MGM withheld its release for four years. The film flopped, and Kelly never regained his sure cinematic footing...
Every ambitious picturemaker should be allowed one wild misfire at no lasting cost to his reputation. Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) can now put this aside and go back to making good films. As for Cruise: after Eyes Wide Shut, Mission: Impossible II and this serioso goofball psychodrama, he might want to wait a while before he does another movie in a mask...