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" Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. "
Elvis Mitchell
Architect
Skills
He
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" A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary. "
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" The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. "
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" With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. "
Elvis Mitchell
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Lyrics
" The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard's complexion. It's a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal. "
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Ambition
Man
" The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.' "
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Wait
" Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy. "
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Great
Comedy
Bing
" My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver. "
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Tickets
First
Job
" The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. "
Elvis Mitchell
Community
Vision
Man
" In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination. "
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Day
Him
" It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow? "
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Ring
Picture
" 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made. "
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Finest
Movies
Made
" When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants. "
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Wonder
You
Rich
" In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve. "
Elvis Mitchell
Own
Deserve
War
" If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to. "
Elvis Mitchell
Work
One Thing
Attack
" It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film. "
Elvis Mitchell
Hard
Film
Worse
" I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries, or is so much about black people as victims in this country, and black people not taking control of their own lives and their own destinies. "
Elvis Mitchell
Experience
People
Thought
" For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them. "
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Tough
Team
Good
" What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner. "
Elvis Mitchell
Food
Picture
Soul
" You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men. "
Elvis Mitchell
You
Ignore
Hispanic
" Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot. "
Elvis Mitchell
Color
Blues
Blue
" I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example. "
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Film
Work
Look
" I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it. "
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Life
Wanting
Pretty
" I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment. "
Elvis Mitchell
Ignore
Entertainment
Want
" The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical. "
Elvis Mitchell
Lift
Time
Pictures
" I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus. "
Elvis Mitchell
Like
Travel
Me
" There's a great deal of echoing going on in 'Old School.' Mr. Piven, who played the upstart outsider in the 1994 campus comedy 'PCU,' has crossed over into playing the stiff martinet. "
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Great
Old
Old School
" Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, 'Hotel' is never less than fascinating, breaking into multiscreen scenarios like Mr. Figgis's 2000 experiment, 'Timecode.' "
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Finally
Hotel
Overwhelmed
" 'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score. "
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Heat
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Down
" My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier. "
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Always
Been