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. . transvestite date in tow . .

Wonder Boys is one of those movies in which
more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero
in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's laboring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus page second opus with no end in sight.

The morning of the college's literary lollapalooza, WordFest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces she's pregnant (she's also the chancellor of the school, as well as the wife of Grady's boss).

Grady's voracious editor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also in town, transvestite date in tow, determined to read the highly anticipated new book; there's also the nubile student (Katie Holmes), who seems more than willing to ease Grady's pain. And then there's James Leer (Tobey Maguire), the mordant and brilliant writing student who's the catalyst for Grady's lost weekend, which involves a soon-to-be-dead blind dog, a stolen car, and the jacket that Marilyn Monroe wore when she wed Joe DiMaggio.

Had enough flights of fancy? It's only the beginning, and in the hands of director Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) and screenwriter Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys), Wonder Boys will have you begging for more. Adroitly adapting Michael Chabon''s novel and distilling it to its droll, melancholy essence, Kloves and Hanson have fashioned a briskly unsentimental and darkly funny tale; these characters may be down on their luck, but they sure don't feel sorry for themselves.

Douglas, by turns dryly sarcastic and sincerely heartfelt, single-handedly makes up for years of alpha-male posturing as the passive pothead Tripp, and whoever thought of pairing him with the resilient McDormand is brilliant--they convey the complexities and history of their relationship in a single glance or movement.

And under Hanson's guidance, the rest of the cast is truly exceptional, with Maguire in a breakthrough performance and Downey at his manic best. The ending of Wonder Boys may feel a little too pat, but after everything these characters have been through, a happy ending seems a just reward. ~Mark Englehart

Film Informaton: 'Wonder Boys'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: Curtis Hanson
Writers : Michael Chabon (novel) Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama | Comedy
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 32 nominations
Runtime: 111 min
Spoken Language: English

Film Preview: 'Wonder Boys'



Trailer score: Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson mp3

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'The Burnham family
joins the cinematic short
list of great dysfunctional
American families . . '

From its first gliding aerial shot of a generic suburban street, American Beauty moves with a mesmerizing confidence and acuity epitomized by Kevin Spacey's calm narration. Spacey is Lester Burnham, a harried man whose midlife awakening is the spine of the story, and his very first lines hook us with their teasing fatalism--like Sunset Boulevard's Joe Gillis, Burnham tells us his story from beyond the grave. It's an audacious start for a film that justifies that audacity.

Weaving social satire, domestic tragedy, and whodunit into a single package, Alan Ball's first theatrical script dares to blur generic lines and keep us off balance, winking seamlessly from dark, scabrous comedy to deeply moving drama.

The Burnham family joins the cinematic short list of great dysfunctional American families, as Lester is pitted against his manic, materialistic realtor wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening, making the most of a mostly unsympathetic role) and his sullen, contemptuous teenage daughter, Jane (Thora Birch, utterly convincing in her edgy balance of self-absorption and wistful longing). Into their lives come two catalytic outsiders. A young cheerleader (Mena Suvari) jolts Lester into a sexual epiphany that blooms into a second adolescence. And an eerily calm young neighbor (Wes Bentley) transforms both Lester and Jane with his canny influence.

Credit another big-screen newcomer, English theatrical director Sam Mendes, with expertly juggling these potentially disjunctive elements into a superb ensemble piece that achieves a stylized pace without lapsing into transparent self-indulgence. Mendes has shrewdly insured his success with a solid crew of stage veterans, yet he's also made an inspired discovery in Bentley, whose Ricky Fitts becomes a fulcrum for both plot and theme. Cinematographer Conrad Hall's sumptuous visual design further elevates the film, infusing the beige interiors of the Burnhams' lives with vivid bursts of deep crimson, the color of roses--and of blood. ~Sam Sutherland

Film Information: 'American Beauty'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: Alan Ball
Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 83 wins & 74 nominations
Runtime: 122 min
Spoken Language: English

Film Files: 'American Beauty'

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Soundtrack Files: 'American Beauty'

01. Folk Implosion - Free To Go.mp3
02. Thomas Newman - Any Other Name.mp3
03. Elliott Smith - Because.mp3
04. Betty Carter - Open The Door.mp3
05. Bobby Darin - Don't Rain On My Parade.mp3
06. The Eels - Cancer For the Cure.mp3
07. The Who - The Seeker.mp3
08. Thomas Newman - Dead Already.mp3
09. Free - All Right Now.mp3
10. Bill Withers - Use Me.mp3
11. Gomez - We Haven't Turned Around.mp3
12. Peggy Lee - Bali Hai.mp3
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. . at times humorous,
at times nostalgic,
and at times tragic . .

The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Rob Epstein, documents the political career of Harvey Milk who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor.The film, at times humorous, at times nostalgic, and at times tragic, documents the rise of Milk from a neighborhood activist to becoming a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination at San Francisco's city hall.

The film was produced after Milk's death using archival footage, so that Milk is credited as the lead (posthumously).

Other politicians including San Francisco mayor George Moscone (who was assassinated with Milk), and Moscone's successor and now United States Senator Dianne Feinstein appear in archival footage. The movie opens with a tearful Feinstein delivering her announcement to the media that Moscone and Milk had been assassinated by Dan White.

Also featured in the film is then-schoolteacher Tom Ammiano who has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 1994. The film was narrated by Harvey Fierstein.

Film Information: 'The Times of Harvey Milk'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: Rob Epstein
Writers: Judith Coburn (narration) Carter Wilson (narration)
Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Documentary | Biography
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination
Run Time: 90min
Spoken Language: English

Film Files: 'The Times of Harvey Milk'

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Harvey Milk's Last Words (1979)



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. . people will pay
any price to
ensure that
their stories
are told . .

Writer/director Pedro Almodóvar's dark, sexy Hitchcock homage is his best work since his Oscar-winning All About My Mother, and deepened by a sun-dappled sadness.

Handsome, enigmatic Ángel (Gael García Bernal) arrives at the Spanish movie offices of director Enrique Goded (Fele Martinez) and happily proclaims that he's actually Enrique's long-lost school chum Ignacio--an announcement that is both less than convincing and more than it seems.

A novice actor, Ángel pitches a semi-autobiographical screenplay in which he's determined to star, a revenge-laden reflection of the doomed love he and Enrique shared as boys before a pedophile priest cruelly intervened.

The script, and the lost days it recalls, carefully unfurls into a series of brooding movies-within-movies and memories-inside-memories, which allow the sensual, multiple-role-playing Bernal to give the performance of his young career--among other things, he makes a stunningly convincing drag queen--and Almodóvar the opportunity to movingly suggest that people will pay any price to ensure that their stories are told.

Film Informaton: 'Bad Education'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Information at at IMDb
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama | Mystery
Awards: Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 11 wins & 30 nominations
Runtime: 106 min
Spoken Language: Spanish
Subtitled in: English

An interview with 'Bad Education' star, Gael Garcia Bernal



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