Shadowlands

BEING
JULIA ***
By GUY FLATLEY
CAST
: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons,
Shaun Evans, Michael Gambon, Juliet Stevenson, Bruce Greenwood,
Miriam Margolyes, Lucy Effectiveness, Tom Sturridge, Rosemary Harris, Rita
Tushingham, Maury Chaykin, Sheila McCarthy, Leigh Lawson
LEADER
: Istvan Szabo
SCREENWRITER
: Ronald Harwood

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t’s
1938 and Hitler’s troops are goose-stepping their way t
oward
Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Meanwhile, Julia Lambert (Annette
Bening), reigning star of the British theater, is blind to the Nazi
blitz headed her way. She is even so in a funk. Why is that?
Partly because her marriage to impresario Michael Gosselyn (Jermey
Irons) is duller than fish and chips and partly because it has dawned
on her that she will never again part of the fluttery ingenue.

Obviously, what Julia needs is a
devoted stud
who’ll make her feel fetching again. Which is precisely what
she finds in Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), a
penniless
innocent
American to whom she’s been introduced by her
cautious hubby (whose own strident philandering doesn’t
seem to bother her one bit). After making it sunny that he is Julia’s
most ardent fan, Tom, rude braggart that he is, makes it unruffled clearer
that he bequeath be at his most ardent between the sheets. And he certainly
makes special-occasion on his promise–the one question being, is this comely,
hotblooded
Y
ank absolutely true-hearted
in his professed
adoration of
Julia?
The hurtful answer comes in the person of a brazenly available blonde
(Lucy Punch) making her West End debut acting the fluttery ingenue
in Julia’s new think nothing of.

When the truth all round Tom’s foolery surfaces, does Julia bear
the news with a turgid later lip, or does she upon a sublimely bitchy
get even with? You surely differentiate the fill to that one, even if you haven’t
deliver assign to “Theater,” W. Somerset Maugham’s loving
description of narcissistic stage folk upon which Ronald Harwood based
his screenplay. The dutiful surprise is that, under the adroit direction
of Istvan Szabo, a game, captivating cast comes lock to making us
confidence in that this creaky nonsense is healthy and pregnant. Jeremy
Irons is at his
elegant
outwit as Julia’s
vain but compassionate spouse, and American beauty Annette Bening
is a stunning blend of ice and dash as the intelligent, foolish, driven,
unshielded, British-to-the-core diva.
The
woman's
bloody
enthralling
.

A Illusion review by Joan Ellis.

"Ma Vie En Rose," wherein 7-year-old Ludovic dreams of
growing up to be a girl, is beguiling as much for what it isn't
as for what it is. Director Alain Berliner blessedly avoids the
temptation to psychologize. He and his co-writer, Chris Vander
Stappen, ensure the strength of their movie by writing about a
boy who is still engulfed in innocence. Ludovic (Georges
DuFresne) lives his dream in games free of adolescent
conflict–which is not to say that Ludovic's parents don't have a
devil of a time dealing with the situation.

Upwardly mobile Pierre and Hanna Fabre move into the suburb
that is also home to Pierre's boss. When families pour from
their identical houses to welcome the Fabre family at a family
barbecue, the happy convergence is reduced to silence when
Ludovic, after elaborate preparations, makes his entrance dressed
as a girl. Later, when he stages a marriage ceremony between
himself and the boss's young son, the world begins to unravel.

The boy's behavior brings expulsion from school, throws his
parents' marriage into chaos, and leaves his father without a
job. And yet it all happens with such gentleness that we are
free to relax enough to get inside the head of this little boy
whose superbly illusionary guardians are Barbie and Ken, elevated
to angelic status as they float above Ludovic's life, dropping
protective stardust on his world.

Kind, if befuddled, the parents, grandmother, teacher, a
therapist struggle to understand, to redirect the boy who
maintains that when God distributed chromosomes, the one that
would have made him female fell by mistake into the garbage. The
humor endures because Ludovic's parents love him without
reservation. Ludovic understands himself precisely; it is the
world at large that doesn't know what to make of such certainty
in a child. To Mr. Berliner's credit, he draws no lessons, finds
no need to wrap things neatly by suggesting what will become of
Ludovic.

Georges du Fresne is enchanting as the little boy, who holds
onto his fantasy in the face of mighty pressures to conform. He
hasn't yet learned that we are supposed to live as others want us
to. The loveliest part of this movie is that Ludovic may well
wake up tomorrow or next year wanting to be a race car driver or
a musician, a father or a bachelor. We are left with the
delightful probability that he will find his own perceptive way.

It is discouraging to imagine what Americans might have made
of this story: earnest lessons about tolerance, perhaps, or
explorations of cause and effect, theorizing about the
progression to sexual confusion. Instead, this is a fairy tale
that sees its subject in all its lovely innocence. It's about
the innocence of children in that moment just before it is
destroyed by the stereotypes we adults, in our infinite wisdom,
build to entrap our young for the rest of their lives.

Film Critic : JOAN ELLIS

Word Count : 492

Studio : Sony Pictures Classics

Rating : NR

Running Time: 1h28m

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“Before the Rain,” a sluggish bureaucratic triptych by Macedonian Milcho Manchevski, concerns the instigate of nationalism in the filmmaker’s tiny Balkan homeland. The film grows more impenetrable with every chapter, but many of its account weaknesses are compensated for by the institute beauty of its mountain setting and the eloquent eyes of its well-chosen cast.

“Words,” the most moving of the three chapters, focuses on a young Greek Orthodox monk, Kiril (Gregoire Colin), who has taken a vow of silence in a 12th-century monastery. Kiril is preparing for bed one night when he finds an Albanian girl (Labina Mitevska) hiding in a dark corner of his room. The discovery leads to a crisis of faith for both Kiril and the girl, a rebellious Muslim runaway.

This tragic parable gives way to “Faces,” a soap operetta in which a photo editor (Katrin Cartlidge) must choose between her estranged British husband (Jay Villiers) and the Macedonian photographer who is her passionate lover (Rade Serbedzija). In the end, a violently melodramatic confrontation in a chic eatery takes the decision out of her hands.

The photographer, Alexsandar, is the protagonist of the final chapter, “Pictures,” which also neatly dovetails with the first story. After years of covering wars, Alexsandar returns to the peaceful Macedonian village of his childhood. Alas, he finds the village much changed: Albanian Muslims and Macedonian Christians no longer treat each other as neighbors, but as enemies. Civil war is but a gunshot away.

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When a relative is allegedly murdered by a Muslim teenager, the neutral Alexsandar is forced to take sides. “War is a virus,” says Alexsandar, whose guilt over his part in the death of a Bosnian POW contributes to his and his village’s slide toward civil war.

A contender for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, “Before the Rain” is too earnest to be profound and too repetitious in theme and imagery to hold the average viewer rapt. The narrative, while beautifully structured, quickly loses its momentum.

Before the Rain is not rated but contains sex and violence.

This is the new trailer for The Green Hornet, the movie based on the long-running character who started life on the radio. The Green Hornet has since been seen in comics, on TV, and in previous movies.

The Green Hornet this time is played by Seth Rogen, the portly star of Judd Apatow comedies such as Knocked Up and Anchorman.

Rogen is a very funny and likable man, but it remains to be seen whether he can pull off this particular role. The trailer hasn’t managed to yet convince me that this is the case; he’s funny and likable, as you’d expect, but badass? Hmm, I’m not sure.

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In Trucks, a union of people in a small community find themselves terrorized and oppressed by average, diurnal trucks that make, inexplicably, assumed a life of their own. If the idea sounds presuming, it’s because the film is based upon the same short chronicle that was the inspiration as far as something Maximum Overdrive, which was directed by the author himself, Stephen Crowned head. Against some reason, I guess someone somewhere figured the film needed to be remade (probably because of the sub-dismal treatment of Overdrive by the viewing public), and the come about is this made-for-TV project, originally aired on cable’s USA Network. At first, I was very critical of such an attempt to remake a film that, in my opinion, was fine the first swiftly a in timely fashion, even with its flaws. I tried hard, though, to excuse my head and just view Trucks without making any comparisons to Overdrive.

The story-line takes rooms in the town of Lunar, a selfish place in Nevada, perfect close to Titivate Lake, better known as Area 51. So, the metropolis is something of a magnet suited for UFO and paranormal aficionados, in much the even so by means of b functioning as that Roswell, Untrained Mexico is. Contemplate (Brenda Bakke) runs a hiking, camping, and touring service in the municipality and is considered something of the quaint-woman-to because she caters to incoming tourists for her custom. In any case, while bringing a group of three customers into the metropolis one day, all Tartarus basically breaks loose. Trucks begin attacking people and acting on their own accord. Eventually, she is among a handful of people left living in the municipality after the vehicular crazy, and they insane themselves up inside a small truck conclusion, figuring out how to escape or defeat the trucks.

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Alfred E. Green directs in a spirited way a story by New Mexico writer
Eugene Manlove Rhodes entitled “Paso por Aqui” (”They Passed This Way”).
The film’s original title They Passed This Way refers to the many brave
travelers to New Mexico, mostly from Mexico, who contributed to America’s
civilization and whose names were carved on Inscription Rock (El Morro
National Monument).

Four Faces West stars the real-life husband and wife team of Joel
McCrea and Frances Dee. McCrea plays Ross McEwen the unlikely outlaw who
holds up the bank in the small New Mexico town of Santa Maria. It’s on
the same day the celebrated marshall Pat Garrett (Charles Bickford) has
relocated his headquarters there and is giving a ‘law and order with justice’
speech. McEwen rides into town and asks banker Frenger (John Parrish) for
a loan of $2,000. When the banker asks the stranger about security for
a loan that large, McEwen pulls out his six-gun and says “that’s my collateral.”
The honest man turned criminal to save his father’s ranch gives the banker
an I.O.U. signed “Jefferson Davis,” indicating he has every intention of
paying back the stolen money. McEwen rides out of town and ditches his
horse to catch a train, but when he ditches his saddle under a rock he’s
bitten by a rattlesnake. Meanwhile, the irate banker offers a $3,000 reward
for the outlaw’s capture Dead or Alive. The more restrained Garrett rounds
up a posse, and orders those who follow to obey the law and try to take
him alive. 

On the train, nurse Fay Hollister (Frances Dee), from the east, treats
McEwen and falls in love with the taciturn and polite man. Monte Marquez
(Joseph Calleia) is a Mexican, who settled in America with his large family
and owns a casino in Alamagordo–the same town where the nurse is reporting
to duty in the new hospital.

Both Fay and Monte soon realize that McEwen is a bank robber, but
are so impressed with his demeanor that they do not turn him in. Meanwhile
Garrett pursues the outlaw into the desert, but begins to have a good feeling
about the bandit when he learns he has returned some of the bank money.
When the honest marshall comes across McEwen in an isolated desert farmhouse
and realizes that he could have easily escaped across the border but instead
stopped to help a large Mexican family who were near death suffering from
diptheria, Garrett cuts a fair deal with McEwen in the best interest of
justice.

It’s an old-fashioned western, where straight goodness overcomes
any cynicism. It’s a more emotionally charged western than an action-packed
one, which is probably why it did a poor box-office on its theatrical release.
But over the years it gained favor as a sensitive and quaint western, with
an irrepressible charm.

McCrea and Dee have enough chemistry together to stock a science
lab. Veteran B-film Western producer Harry Sherman, known as the one who
first brought Hopalong Cassidy to the big screen, goes all out to make
the production classy with a million dollar budget. Cinematographer Russell
Harlan does a splendid job with his black and white photography, capturing
the beauty and loneliness of the desert vistas. 

Undeterred by a starry exile, the daft concoct premise (loosely derived from Brian W Aldiss’ novel Frankenstein Unbound) scuppers any longing of intelligent show from the outset. Aided by cheapo effects, scientist Buchanan (Hurt) is catapulted back from the future to a Gothic-approach days of old. Worse still, Corman’s directing style is stuck in a ’60s leisure warp. Vacillating between all-out gore and tongue-in-cheek humour, Corman manages occasional flashes of wit (such as a scene in which Buchanan presents Mary Shelley with a photocopy of her unfinished novel Frankenstein). Mostly, it’s too ludicrous even to aspire to campness. No explanation is offered as to why Mary Shelley’s fictional Dreadfulness comes to be roaming the shores of Lake Geneva in a rubber request, while the antics of Byron (Patric) and his versifier become friendly Shelley (Hutchence) are as over-long as they are fey. Meanwhile, the painfully second to-hand-me-down Bruised, Julia (Baron Frankenstein) and Fonda (Mary Shelley) wind the Villa Diodati in search of a plot that seems to sire slipped into done with a impression in the time continuum.

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Just as suddenly as the Spaghetti Western sprang onto the scene in the mid-1960s, it was suddenly snuffed prohibited in 1977. Westerns abruptly went from being over half of Italy’s cinematic output to zero, outwardly the victim of changing tastes and the disappearance of the Western from American television. One of the very last Italian Westerns to sock success the screen was this cruel spit from prolific director Sergio Martino.

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Liberality Nimrod Blade (Maurizio Merli) comes to Suttonville hauling his latest captive, Burt Craven (Donal O’Brien, featured player in multifarious of the most desirable Italian Westerns) and wagers him against black-clad Theo Voller (John Steiner) in a card contest. Upon winning a migrate, Blade releases Craven, sans a hand cut off with a hatchet, as a somebody savings account should he later exigency ready spondulicks. But attracting Voller’s attention was the wrong clobber to do, since he is straw boss of the silver-toned mine owned by prominent local Edward McGowan (Philippe Leroy). The dulcet shipments from the mine are constantly being robbed by a gang of bandits, and when Ladies’ man offers his services and is rebuffed, Voller tries to take him out of the sketch. But Blade doesn’t die all that easily and is swiftly back on his wildly against Voller and McGowan, ending in a bloody edge that leaves nearly each dead or maimed.

While the hatchet-throwing Blade is a in some measure attractive typical, his motivations are fairly dull and unoriginal. Merli (who had made a rating for himself in a series of incontestable-boiled detective pictures) does an satisfactory job with the part, but nothing more. Steiner as the prime bad dude is highly effective, with a leeringly gaunt, algolagnic face that is inured to to probity secure; he presents an operatic interpretation to the character, underscored by his flowing ness and wide-brimmed hat. Leroy is also effective as McGowan, and the screenplay gives him a number of different perspectives to work with, making him by without a doubt the best-rounded character on display. His rigorous fervor, deeply settled in hypocrisy, helps drive the picture along as he drives the the dansant-lecture-room girls who rescue Sabre for all to see of city, but not before having them tied up and sadistically whipped.

The screenplay actually does manage a few surprises, which I won’t spoil here. There is quite a bit of the Marxist thought common in these Westerns during the 1970s (possibly another reason for their declivity in renown, since infrequent moviegoers appreciate being preached at). McGowan and particularly Voller go wild with the image of the capitalist grinding the wage-earner into the dirt, draining the plumb life out of the supply workers and then gunning them down in unresponsive blood when they object. The editing is definitely effective, with some striking juxtapositions between the passengers on a stagecoach being cut down by bandits and the dancers doing a can-can; the editing makes the deaths all the more impressive and gives the whole a heightened consequences to the stress of being painful to watch. And speaking of painful, this uncut edition includes a notorious torture-to-regard run that is a tip of the hat to director Martino’s involvement in several gialli; indeed, one suspects that the scurvy eye setpiece in Dario Argento’s Opera may have had its roots in this sequence.

The stunt trade is exceedingly famously executed, with more than a dozen instances of “that’s gotta hurt” striking the viewer. Martino indicates that Merli did most of his own stunt work, including a hard-hearted brawl in mud. By the same token, the steadfast effects are exceedingly indelicate and unconvincing for the most part. While the score has an evocative harmonica wail much of the time, seemly for the melancholy gag, there’s also an kookie disquisition melody that is repeatedly croaked not on by an uncredited vocalist; it in actuality has to be heard to be believed in its thoroughly extravagant rank.

The story is awful and the characters are all stripped of any sense of humanity by the conclusion. The violence quotient is fairly high, nevertheless the gore is somewhat considerate; people who age attempt possess youthful trickles of blood rather than out-and-out goutin showers. In all, this was one of the least interesting in Dejected Underground’s Spaghetti Western Collecting, but it’s still intriguing to mull over the final evolutions of the genre just now as it burned out line.

Basically “The Bit Boat That Could,” “Madison” charts a predictable course through commonplace-infested waters. Not even the warm presence of a pre-”The Passion of the Christ” James Caviezel can invigorate this inspirational but uninspired sports flick picture show, which premiered at Sundance in 2001, then sat on the shelf for four years before becoming MGM’s unlikely penultimate release. Studio’s less-than-conspicuous marketing push and uninterested word of mouth will-power straight away capsize the project, although it could certify marginally more navigable on video.

Based on the true story of Jim McCormick, who overcame merciless odds — and the smug derision of the entire hydroplane racing community — to win the 1971 Gold Cup, “Madison” draws its title from McCormick’s small Indiana hometown as well as the rickety yellow boat that was once its pride and joy.

Once a thriving town on the Ohio River, Madison suffers from rampant unemployment and a general Hicksville reputation. As for the community-owned race boat, the Miss Madison, she’s deteriorated into a slow, spluttering wreck, prone to random breakdowns and odd fumes.

Thus it’s up to McCormick (Caviezel), the pilot of the race boat and one of the town’s last true believers, to rally his neighbors, keep Madison on the highly competitive racing circuit and restore his son Mike’s faith in the power of miracles. (Mike is played by a very young Jake Lloyd, with John Mellencamp handling the voiceover.) But McCormick, now an air-conditioner repairman, hasn’t raced since his near-fatal accident years ago, and wife Bonnie (Mary McCormack) isn’t about to let him risk his life again.

A surprising turn of events leaves Madison hosting the Gold Cup tournament. Meanwhile, the job cuts continue, the boat blows a fuse and McCormick is subject to constant ridicule by the children (yes, even the tots are evil) of the opposing Budweiser team.

To the credit of writer-director William Bindley and co-scribe Scott Bindley, the pace rarely stalls or lingers, motoring along much more efficiently than the floundering craft at the film’s center. Yet that only draws attention to the mechanical quality of the narrative, which favors expedience over plausibility at every turn. Every obstacle, from the town’s financial rut to the McCormicks’ domestic woes, has a quick, ready-made solution. Simply to maneuver McCormick into the boat racer’s seat, the plot takes a turn so callous and unnecessarily tragic that it almost stops the film in its watery tracks.

Here it becomes clear that Bonnie may very well have a point in protesting her husband’s racing. It also becomes evident that without the benefit of Caviezel’s sympathetic drawl and perpetually moist puppy-dog eyes, McCormick might come off as a lot more feckless and irresponsible than he does.

Pic could use more of the occasional throwaway banter between husband and wife. And as a story about teamwork, it needs a richer, more lived-in sense of community ties: Despite colorful local-yokel perfs by Brent Briscoe, Paul Dooley and Bruce Dern as a sort of mechanic/boat guru, neither Madison the town nor “Madison” the movie ever feels fully inhabited.

Though agreeably lensed, the racing sequences lack flair or visceral impact. And, even when the boats quit, Kevin Kiner’s aggressively uplifting score never does.