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Flight of Fancy

In the technically mind-boggling Winged Migration, audiences get to soar with the birds

By Andy Klein
Jun 12, 2003

Talk about your insanely ambitious projects: Filmmaker Jacques Perrin got it in his head to record, on film, the many varieties of annual migration to be found in the avian world. Animal actors in general are tough enough, but birds in particular are recalcitrant and skittish subjects, particularly when they're...
Hollow Man

Billy Bob comes close to nothingness in the curiously titled Levity

By Andy Klein
May 8, 2003

Nobody can convey more, doing nothing, than Billy Bob Thornton. His minimalist style is appropriate for the ironically named Levity, but what is conveyed never quite generates the emotional charge of Sling Blade or Monster's Ball. Writer-director Ed Solomon is best known as the screenwriter of the two Bill &...
The King Is Dense

There's more to Stephen King's Dreamcatcher than will fit in its confusing cinematic adaptation

By Andy Klein
Mar 20, 2003

Lawrence Kasdan directs and co-writes (with William Goldman) Dreamcatcher, the latest addition to the Stephen King adaptation genre, currently at 74, including film and TV, and counting. Taking the Internet Movie Database as a source, this puts King handily ahead of Michael Crichton (23) and Bram Stoker (38), closing in...
Where the Heart Isn't

The Way Home is paved with canned sentiment

By Andy Klein
Jan 30, 2003

It used to be that the only Korean films to be seen in the U.S. were somber art-house films like Jeong Ji-yeong's White Badge or veteran Im Kwon-Taek's Chunhyang and Sopyonje. But as South Korea has developed a more technically sophisticated commercial film industry, these have been joined by hard-edged,...
Shanghai Surprise

A quirk of history now brings forth Holocaust tales from an unlikely place

By Andy Klein
Jan 30, 2003

Just when a cynic might think there are no more Holocaust stories to be told, yet another undiscovered perspective pops up on local screens. But even if you've seen The Pianist and The Fighter and Night and Fog, there is still Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir...

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