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Part one is The Argentine, a lush widescreen epic detailing Guevera's Cuban adventures with Fidel Castro. Part two, Guerilla, constricts the frame and I'm told drastically alters the shooting style, as apparently things in Bolivia didn't turn out so well. It's a typically ambitious and idiosyncratic project for [Steven Soderbergh], a guy whose failures are more interesting than most directors' successes.
Hard to believe it's been more than a decade since the Titanic sank and a billion teenage girls sobbed their eyes out, but Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are finally reunited on-screen in Revolutionary Road. Directed by Sam Mendes (aka Mr. Winslet), this adaptation of Richard Yates' influential chronicle of suburban ennui doesn't feature any icebergs, and nobody's king of the world. But it's nonetheless hard to shake a been-there-done-that vibe from the early footage.If you think Kate Winslet couldn't ' possibly work with a filmmaker worse than her husband, you're in for a surprise. In any sane world the folks responsible for The Hours wouldn't be allowed anywhere near a professional motion picture set ever again, but somehow director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare are back at it, tackling Bernhard Schlink's tricky novel The Reader, which is about how rough it is when you lose your virginity to a Nazi.See the full content of this document
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Mickey Rourke's Oscar buzz. Kate and Leo. Che Guevara. Everything old is new again.It's that time of year again, and nothing brings on the holiday cheer quite like a slate of award-grubbing Hollywood epics.'Tis the season in which studio heads happily toss away all sorts o...See the full content of this document
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