Burn After Reading: This year's Oscar-winners Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) cast Oscar-winners and box-office superstars alike in this comedy about a CIA veteran (John Malkovich) who finds himself in trouble when his secret-ridden memoirs end up in the hands of a couple of health-club boobs (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt). Also starring Tilda Swinton and George Clooney, both from last year's Michael Clayton. Swinton won a best supporting actress Oscar for her role in that movie. (Sept. 12) W: The last time director Oliver Stone offered up a portrait of a disgraced president, the result was Nixon, a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of the only president to resign from the office. It's doubtful this film bio of George W. Bush (played by No Country for Old Men star Josh B...
[Jamie Glazov] provides an alarming number of examples from those dark days at the end of 2001. Novelist Norman Mailer hailed the 19 hijackers as "brilliant," while film director Oliver Stone compared their acts to the French and American revolutions. The greatest strength of United in Hate is Glazov's dissection of the cognitive dissonance that characterizes many of the apologists for militant Islam. Glazov reserves the full measure of his scorn, though, for Jewish apologists for Islamist anti-Semitism. The son of a Russian Jew who barely escaped imprisonment in the Soviet Union, he sees American Jews like [Susan Sontag] and [Noam Chomsky], and Jewish Holocaust-denier Norman Finkelstein, as accomplices to militant Islam, providing it with a veneer of respectability.
WTC is both more graphic and more obviously emotional than the spare, scrupulously understated United 93 (which opened in April), but in some ways it is less affecting. Partly this is because United 93 director Paul Greengrass dealt with the relatively enigmatic story of the doomed UA flight, while [Oliver Stone] is working in a visual currency -- the Twin Towers falling, the smoking wreck of Ground Zero -- that has been cheapened by repeated viewings on CNN. Putting aside JFK conspiracy theories, Natural Born Killers sensationalism and Alexander bombast, Stone offers a robust, uncomplicated tribute to the human spirit. Along with first-time screenwriter Andrea Berloff, Stone uses the specific horrors of Sept. 11 to reach for uplifting universal messages. WTC tells us that in extraordi...
When the two friends go to a high school reunion, they meet one of Miri's old crushes, Bobby Long (Brandon Routh of Superman Returns), who, much to Miri's disappointment, is now a gay porn star. ([Zack] learns this fact via Bobby's loquacious boyfriend Brandon, played by Justin Long, who babbles incessantly about the nitty-gritty of their sex lives. Prior to this movie, I used to think Justin Long was funny.) [Elizabeth Banks] (currently on view as Laura Bush in Oliver Stone's W.) has a difficult time as Miri. It's necessary to the plot that she jettison some of her self-respect to go along with Zack's scheme, and Banks doesn't sell it. [Seth Rogen] is no Mark Wahlberg (no full frontal nudity here, thank heaven), although he is peculiarly suited to the task of speaking [Kevin Smith]'s o...
I think Scotty had never seen one of my films," says [Oliver Stone] upon hearing of Strauss's concerns. "But I face that all the time and you have to go on with your life and you say, 'Look, I'm here, can you help us? We want to make it as realistic as possible.' "They didn't discuss politics. They were policemen serving and they were first responders. That was how they considered themselves," Stone says. "So it's a limited viewpoint. It's a working man's viewpoint and the movie was done in a way to reflect that, to see it from their point of view." "I don't understand what happened in the air, frankly," he says. "I have not researched this to any degree like JFK; I just don't understand what happened in the air and why the Air Force was not more evident, and the National Guard. I do...
IMPERIUM (Arrow, 484 pages, $12), by Britain's Robert Harris, is a magnificent historical novel. It's set in and around Rome, in the first century B.C. Cicero, the ambitious young Roman lawyer, sees an opportunity to catapult himself into the political spotlight, but it involves taking on a powerful and corrupt governor in open court. Speaking of politics, here's The Collectors (Grand Central, 528 pages, $13), by Virginia's David Baldacci. The U.S. Speaker of the House has been assassinated, but it's the murder of the Library of Congress's rare-books curator that sparks the interest of Oliver Stone and his small band of conspiracy-busters. Soon they uncover a labyrinthine plot that threatens entire country. In The Machine's Child (Tor, 356 pages, $11), by California's Kage Baker, so ma...
It's not a political movie. It's a biography," the actor said. "People will remember that this guy is human, when we are always dehumanizing him, calling him an idiot, a puppet, a failed president. We want to know in the movie: How does a guy grow up and become the person he did? Comments from other cast members, however, have been interpreted as poking fun at the Bush legacy ?-- particularly one quip from Ellen Burstyn, who plays Barbara Bush. "I don't want to do an impression," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I just want to honour her voice, her stillness, and her hairstyle." "I tend to see [Oliver Stone] as a very good propagandist, in a way, a very accomplished dramatist who uses real historical periods and figures to create oftentimes riveting films," said Mark Rozell, a politica...
He's a guy you should meet and get to know. ... He's the star of the movie,'' [Oliver Stone] said in an interview before the premiere. Stone said he wanted to illustrate changes that put leaders in many South American countries in power who represent the majority of their populations, a movement started with [Hugo Chavez]. He cited Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first Indian to be elected president, and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a well-known trade unionist.
Gerald Green, who produced [Oliver Stone]'s Salvador and the Christian Bale-led Rescue Dawn, faces 20 counts. [Patricia Green], who produced Diamonds, a comedy starring Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd and Lauren Bacall, faces 21 counts. Prosecutors contend the Greens paid Juthamas Siriwan, the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, about $1.8 million, often disguised as sales commissions, to help secure the Bangkok International Film Festival and tourism-related deals, beginning in 2002. The Greens' lawyers said they never paid to get the contracts.
[Oliver Stone] arrived in Villavicencio on Saturday as part of a mission led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to retrieve three hostages held for years by the Revolutionary...
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