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The third time is not a charm for George Clooney. After an excellent directorial debut ("Confessions of a Dangerous Mind") and a brilliant sophomore effort ("Goodnight and Good Luck"), the actor/ director stumbles with his latest offering, the sports comedy "Leatherheads. Set in the early years of professional football, the film stars Clooney as Dodge Connelly, a professional ballplayer trying to keep his struggling team afloat. His plan is to recruit top college draw Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski).
[Charlie Kaufman], you'll recall, is the screenwriter of Being. John Malkovich, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Human Nature, which was also directed by [Michel Gondry], a French former rocker and MTV guy. I haven't seen this last film, but in the others, Kaufman delighted in mixing the real with the imaginary and rearranging his characters' psyches from the inside out--and maybe our own as well. Eternal Sunshine's rapid-fire editing tosses us backwards and forwards in time, and in and out of [Joel Barish]'s brain, and the story is often hard to follow (I wish I'd had time to see it twice). Sometimes the film feels overly clever and trendy, but it's an entertaining puzzle that deepens and becomes more involving as it goes. In the end, the film almost persuades us that lo...
There are obviously some savvy ideas at work here (even the title is a clever grammar-nerd spin on my mom's hometown of Schenectady). But in the past [Charlie Kaufman]'s worked alongside slippery visual commercial artists like Spike Jonze or Michel Gondry. And even though he foolishly disowned the film, Kaufman's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and its asphyxiating, oppressive sex guilt found vibrant, cinematic expression through director George Clooney's blinding colors and low-tech optical illusions. Synecdoche, in contrast, is relentlessly, crushingly drab. His first time at the helm Kaufman finds no visual corollary for the abstractions in his writing- everything's ground down in bleak, deliberately ugly literalism, with no variation in tone. [Caden Cotard]'s looking for blood in hi...
Eventually, [Duncan Brantley] went to [Steven Soderbergh] and asked if he could take a crack at a rewrite himself. The new script ended up in the hands of George Clooney, who liked it. "George is a famous letter writer," Brantley says. "He doesn't like computers, he writes letters longhand. Around the time he was directing Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), he wrote Steven a letter and said, 'If you're not going to direct it, may I direct it?' and Steven said sure.
Even [Charlie Kaufman]'s finest hours (like director George Clooney's swaggeringly assured rendering of Chuck Barris' sex-shame opus Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, or Spike Jonze's outlandish adaptation of Adaptation) remained just a little bit chilly at the core. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the fifth movie filmed from a Charlie Kaufman script, and by far the best. There's something unguarded and poignant about this picture that strikes you in the solar plexus the way his others couldn't have even tried. It's almost as if, having already conquered the human brain, Kaufman's now finally reaching out toward the heart. [Clementine], who changes her hair color almost daily, is a flake. She's a drunk, she's insane, she's gorgeous and we can't help but love her to death. ([Kate...
Another film, another whack-job character role for Sam Rockwell. In "Snow Angels," the gifted 39-year-old character actor plays a suicidal, born-again Christian trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. So what else is new? Rockwell has made a career of indelible, often bizarre screen portrayals, from game show host/CIA hit man Chuck Barris in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," to two-headed galactic president Zaphod Beeblebrox in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
What was J. Todd Anderson's reaction to seeing himself on the big screen in "Leatherheads"? I put on a lot more weight since 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' " Anderson said, laughing.
Sam Rockwell has made a name for himself as both an indie darling ("Snow Angels," "Joshua") and a chameleonic Hollywood oddball ("Matchsick Men," "Charlie's Angels," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"). But in the complex and affecting new science-fiction drama "Moon," Rockewll takes things to an entirely new level: Playing the dual role of a man and his clone, he gives a ferociously intelligent, physically dazzling, leading-man performance that deserves to earn him a Best Actor Oscar nomination. At the start of the picture, Rockwell's Sam Bell is in the final weeks of a three-year-long mission to Mars, where he's mining for gas in order to solve an energy crisis on Earth. But after Sam is unexpectedly injured, he wakes up to discover that he's sharing the space station with a clone -- a...
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