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" In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it. "

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" It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he's uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes. "

" Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others. "

" 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. "

" Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born with a name so brand-ready he basically had to become an entrepreneur. "

" 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

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" Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case. "

" Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old. "

" 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made. "

" Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women. "

" When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's notebook - it clarifies what the film is: an unrealized sketch. A sketch can afford to allude to a point of view. Moviemakers need to show their point of view, something this shrug of a movie never gets around to doing. "

" The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call. "

" I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention. "

" I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment. "

" 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? "

" The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" 'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others. "

" The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.' "

" Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director. "

" Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died? "

" The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film. "

" Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema? "

" One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.' "

" Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos. "

" We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis. "

" 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him. "

" With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. "

" '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. "

" LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up. "