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Top stars enter musical quartet
Israeli-American film-maker Yaron Zilberman there were plenty of moments in the creation of Performance that were markedly different from his only previous feature, a documentary called Watermarks.
Film review: Trance
TRANCE. (R16)(101 min) Directed by Danny Boyle.Starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson.
Ford not ready to talk Star Wars
Harrison Ford isn’t ready – “yet” – to talk about his reported part in Disney’s planned Star Wars sequel, but he praises its director, J.J. Abrams.
The Host: Dawn of a new trilogy
Author Stephenie Meyer is hoping her vampire fans will be willing to step into a new world and embrace aliens as the first film of her new book series, The Host, hits the big screens this week.
Cinema: Playing Tough, Going Nowhere
THE OUTSIDERS Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by Kathleen Knutsen Rowell”He's so greasy he glides when he walks.” This is Tulsa 1966, where lines of class and style are drawn as sharply as in any war, and there is no demilitarized zone. On one side is the “greaser,” teen descendant of Elvis, Brando and James Dean; poor white trash and proud of it
‘My sister! My daughter!’ and other tales of ‘Chinatown’
If you think you were confused and challenged by the famously labyrinthine plot of “Chinatown,” imagine how the screenwriter felt. “I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview.
Roman Polanski: A life on celluloid
“I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview. “It took an ungodly amount of time to work on it — it was 10 months of solid work, and before that, there were several months of letting it gel enough to write it.” The process was worth it to Towne, however — he walked away with an Oscar for best original screenplay, the only one the film received in a year mostly overrun by “The Godfather Part II.” Director Roman Polanski’s film, starring Jack Nicholson as a 1930s detective who gets in over his head with intertwined scandals of murder, sodomy and real estate development, has become a modern classic