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Two misunderstood teenage boys clad in black gloves and military fatigues, carrying ominously large duffle bags filled to the brim, walk purposefully into your average American high school.
Just as Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ has issues of realism and history in film back in the spotlight, the tenth anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation has come around, marked by the DVD release of Schindler's List.
The Passion of The Christ relies on violence, violence and more violence to get an emotional response from the audience.
As others have commented, a script dealing with poets, giving them words to speak, needs to be beautiful and poetic in its own right. The script for Sylvia is not.
Many people know about Apple's Ridley Scott-directed 1984 commerical, but very few people have seen it.
Murray and Johansson are definitely Oscar contenders for their work on Lost in Translation and while Coppola might not have been in the trade long enough for a Best Director nod as yet, she's definitely well on the way. A must-see film!
Readers familiar with Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos will no doubt have been waiting with baited breath for his return to epic SF and his sizable new novel Ilium is certainly epic in both size and scope.
Campion's never been one to shy away from big issues, so tackling desire 'realistically' has meant a take on desire, lust and maybe even love which is unrecognisable to an audience raised on Hollywood clichés.
The first line of Vol. 1 is David Carradine's "I bet I could fry an egg on your face right now, if I wanted to." By the end of Kill Bill: Volume 1, that's exactly how you'll feel, but with any luck your head won't explode in the chasm of anticipation before Volume 2 graces the million multiplexes in February next year.
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