ARTICLES ON CINEMA

 

P.70. GODARD: One of Godard’s masterpieces, in which Marianne Renoir (Karina, who was divorcing the director at the time), accompanies Belmondo’s Pierrot, who has abandoned his wife and children in Paris, on a doomed escape to the Mediterranean. The movie is important for its themes of alienation and brooding narcissism, especially revealed in a party where mannequin-like capitalists spout American TV ad copy instead of conversation.

P.72. Prima Donna: Minnie Driver in Hope Springs: A romantic comedy; a classic adaptation and a Scottish road movie - three new British films all have their charms, even the one featuring Minnie Driver's trademark Prima Donna routine, says Sukhdev Sandhu. Hope springs infernal when it comes to films starring Minnie Driver. All too often she comes across like a spoiled child bawling her eyes out because she's just dropped a lollipop on the floor, a flouncy prima donna kicking up a fuss upon learning that she can't have the restaurant table she wants.

P.73. Mystic River: Self-doubt, ethical compromise and moral ambiguity are on the cards when three childhood friends are reunited following the murder of one's daughter Clint Eastwood's latest movie as a director is a stolid, masculine thriller bearing the lineaments of tragedy - something classical or even biblical.

 

 

P.74. Blanchett: She's a Renegade with no Deadline. “Veronica Guerin” Starring: Cate Blanchett. RATING: 2 Stars Movies have always confused journalists with cops, and maybe the comparison isn't far off: Both jobs appear to be about unraveling mysteries, but both are really about paperwork. The difference, however, is that cops get shot more often. Not to belittle those journalists who put their lives on the line daily, but their movie brethren are a Hollywood fantasy of tough-talking, street-walking renegades without deadlines.

 

 

P.74. Clooney: It is traditional, when considering the films of the Coen brothers, to remark on their versatility, and their ability to pastiche and corrupt genres, while also remaining true to their chosen form. There is some truth in this notion, but, as a means of understanding their output...

P.75. Time of the Wolf: A couple and their two children flee the city for their country home, only to find it occupied by strangers. The central image of the 1921 film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, its origins in the Bible and medieval iconography, put before the public a vision of a world on the brink of total destruction. Perhaps the first film to show our civilization reduced to ashes was Things to Come in 1936 which prophesied a Second World War resulting in total annihilation.

P.382-386. STARS: Isabel Rose, star extraordinaire , co-writer of the film Anything But Love and author of the upcoming Doubleday novel The J.A.P Chronicles (Hardcover: 256 pages. Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (May 17, 2005. ISBN: 0385512864) is coming to The Hideaway Room at Helen's, 169 Eighth Avenue, New York City,  on November 16th, 21st, and 23rd at 9:30pm, for an evening of  superb entertainment accompanied by the Jeffrey Klitz trio. Her novel comes out in March "which she is fashioning a new show around" said her publicist, Scott Klein from Keith Sherman and Associates .

 

P.387- 391CINEMA AND SHOWBIZ LATEST NEWS:  Tom Hanks used experimental technology to morph into a little boy, a train conductor, a hobo and Santa Claus for the new Christmas adventure The Polar Express... Liam Neeson stars in Kinsey, which some conservative groups have denounced as being too favourable to pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Indignant conservative groups are protesting the opening of the film Kinsey, denouncing it as "propaganda" seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution. "Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theatres showing the film...Sopranos role gives  actor Curatola recognition and "respect".