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...merely a bystander in all this but a principled participant. The film's heartbeat is the gratitude, seemingly profound, that Smith and Carlos feel for the Australian. "I would die for him," Smith says in a 2004 interview. It's all very touching - and perhaps misleading. Speaking to TIME, writer-director Matt Norman, Peter's nephew, makes clear that not all his feelings about Smith and Carlos permeate his film. Salute is essentially a straightforward, if astute and moving, retelling of a well-documented event, so Norman's comments are puzzling. On several levels, he says, he is disappointed...
...last is Brigadier General Lewis Armistead. They don't embrace all the contortions imposed on the human spirit by the military necessity, but they'll do for a potent, dramatic start. And their existence as well-drawn figures amid the hubbub of a four-hour epic speaks well for writer-director Ronald Maxwell's sober intentions and very creditable achievements in this film. Of the three, Martin Sheen's Lee is the most startling. In our folklore (and in the hearts of his troops) the Confederate leader has been granted near saintly status. Sheen gives us the dark side...
...WRITER-DIRECTOR: RONALD F. MAXWELL...
...have this ill wind, this feeble gust of an environmental horror story. The writer-director's disintegration from robust artistic health to narrative incoherence, from hitmaker to box-office loser, has an almost tragic trajectory. It's a saga worthy of being told by the young M. Night Shyamalan. Perhaps, with his next film, he'll have a surprise twist of cinematic brilliance that will explain and atone for the creepy stuff that's been happening...
...When writer-director Andrew Stanton--whose last film was Pixar's all-time box-office champ, Finding Nemo--showed the first reels of WALL?E to the studio's brain trust three years ago, fellow auteur Brad Bird (The Incredibles) told him, "Man, you didn't make it easy for yourself." A movie that shows but doesn't tell, and whose leading characters are essentially mimes, could put an end to the eight-film box-office winning streak that began with Toy Story in 1995 and continued unbroken through last year's Ratatouille. To sell the project, Stanton had only...