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...writer-director Craig Brewer, 33, the film's July 13 release is the culmination of a five-year odyssey of slammed doors, we'll-call-yous and try-it-our-ways. Cast a rap star in the lead role, not a journeyman actor with zero marquee wattage. Make it in Los Angeles, not in your hometown. And, the Hollywood whisper went, could you please not be a white guy? Taylor Hackford had run up against similar prejudices in the 15 years it took him to make Ray. As Brewer recalls, "I'm sitting there sweating bullets, thinking...
...ready for some fat-and-sassy attention. Which means that when they eventually come to intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without reason like an inebriated gyroscope; bring a neck brace. But Adlon holds his focus on his heroine, who, in ecstasy or defeat, knows that love means never having...
...Broken Flowers held promise of being a breakthrough comedy for Jarmusch. Murray, lately the go-to actor for independent-minded directors, has established an amusingly dour screen personality that twins nicely with Jarmusch's. The writer-director shows his understanding of the Murray persona by casting him as Don Johnston, a man who searches for the mother of his son less out of a passion for knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton...
...Today they had a special treat: the world premiere of Star Wars Episode III: Return of the Sith. To one side of the steps was perched a full orchestra in evening dress. As writer-director George Lucas and many of his stars came into view, the orchestra struck up the first martial notes of John Williams' theme. "Georges Lu-cah!" a French voice fanfared over the loud-speaker system, and the crowd cheered. The spectacle was as majestic and fun as the celebration of the Jedi's triumph over the Death Star in the final scene of the first Star...
...Writer-director Paul Haggis, too, has run the gamut of infamy in his long career, penning screenplays for shows as wide-rangingly awful as “The Love Boat” (yes, the original), “The Facts of Life,” and “Walker, Texas Ranger...