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BLACK
BOOK
Paul Verhoven's first film made outside of Hollywood in 22
years, is also his most rapturously reviewed work in ages.
Since winning "Best International Film" at the Venice
Film Festival last year it has amassed a buzz that one of
his films hadn't generated since The 4th Man. Black Book is
the story of a young Dutch Jewish girl who barely escapes
the war in Holland, only to join the resistance to see if
she can discover who betrayed her family, and caused their
deaths. Ripe with Verhoven's trademark stylized flourishes,
Black Book looks as though it may just be good enough to make
people stop referring to him as "the director of Showgirls".
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GRINDHOUSE
There’s a slight possibility that you’ve already
heard about Grindhouse, an understated little three-hour epic
of excess helmed by two shy and retiring young men, Robert
Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. More likely, though, you’ve
been excitedly following every tiny snippet of news about
the film, know the trailer by heart, and bought your tickets
for the first screening months ago, and you won’t need
me to tell you that this is the week the waiting comes to
an end. Get ready to bask in the glories of Rodriguez’s
Planet Terror, Tarantino’s Death Proof, and some choice
fake trailers by Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and Shaun
of the Dead’s Edgar Wright. Yes, Grindhouse is all but
upon us.
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I
HATE HUCKABEES (REDUX)
The David O. Russell / Lily Tomlin videos that leaked recently
have become the indie world's equivalent of the Paris Hilton
sex tape - incendiary and illicitly thrilling. The blogosphere's
exposure of the clips prompted Tomlin to laugh off her conflict
with Russell, and George Clooney - who famously clashed with
Russell on Three Kings and is the rumored co-leaker of the
clips, along with sound mixer Edward Tise - denies the charge
and has offered $1m to anyone who can link him to the release
of the clips.
Russell himself has been notably
silent, yet this week there are reports that he is having
problems with Vince Vaughn during pre-production on The H-Man...
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KEEPING
IT SIMPLE
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YET
MORE GRINDHOUSE
It's just one week until Grindhouse is upon us, but in the
meantime here are some little tidbits to keep you going. Over
at IESB there are behind the scenes clips of all five directors
at work, you can see what happened at the Entertainment Weekly's
covershoot for Grindhouse here and, if you feel the desire
to kill five minutes at work, Time Out will help you pitch
a grindhouse movie to Robert Rodriguez.
Read
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THE
DIRECTOR INTERVIEW: SCOTT FRANK - By Nick Dawson
Scott Frank is one of Hollywood's most respected scriptwriters,
and now one of its most promising directors. Frank's first
produced script was high school comedy thriller Plain Clothes
(1988), but his breakthrough came in 1991 when his original
scripts for both Dead Again and Little Man Tate came to the
screen. Since then, he has shown great talent at adapting
novels: he was nominated for an Academy Award for his work
on Out of Sight (1998), having already turned another Elmore
Leonard novel, Get Shorty (1995), into a big hit. Frank also
co-wrote Malice (1993) and adapted James Lee Burke's Heaven's
Prisoners for his brother-in-law Phil Joanou, while his more
recent credits include Minority Report (2002), The Flight
of the Phoenix (2004) and The Interpreter (2005)...
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here for the rest of the article
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