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" Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director. "
Elvis Mitchell
Director
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Own
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" Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. "
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Country
Way
Own
" Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon. "
Elvis Mitchell
Patient
Looks
Trying
" The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me. "
Elvis Mitchell
Me
Work
Like
" 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
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Home
Work
You
" If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp. "
Elvis Mitchell
Actor
Good
Better
" It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot. "
Elvis Mitchell
American
Kind
Movies
" A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people. "
Elvis Mitchell
Black
People
Time
" My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job. "
Elvis Mitchell
People
Feel
You
" 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily. "
Elvis Mitchell
Black
Choose
Down
" 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
" Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died? "
Elvis Mitchell
Michael Jackson
Remember
Where
" Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. "
Elvis Mitchell
Architect
Skills
He
" '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
Notes
You
Like
" When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part. "
Elvis Mitchell
Yourself
You
Him
" No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories. "
Elvis Mitchell
Determination
Movies
Career
" 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.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Lost
Movies
Mood
" Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created. "
Elvis Mitchell
Find
Mind
Black
" LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up. "
Elvis Mitchell
Art
Big
Leg
" Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tomorrow
Better
Drama
" The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' "
Elvis Mitchell
May
Books
Film
" 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 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether. "
Elvis Mitchell
Dream
Looks
He
" I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it. "
Elvis Mitchell
Film
Done
Been
" Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, 'Hotel' is never less than fascinating, breaking into multiscreen scenarios like Mr. Figgis's 2000 experiment, 'Timecode.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Finally
Hotel
Overwhelmed
" 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
" In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard. "
Elvis Mitchell
He
Someone
Sword
" Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative. "
Elvis Mitchell
Air
Music
More
" 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? "
Elvis Mitchell
Why
Ring
Picture
" Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it. "
Elvis Mitchell
She
Acting
Blue