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" 'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch. "
Elvis Mitchell
Late
Talk
Old
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" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Accomplishment
Ambition
Man
" '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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Heat
Film
Down
" 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
" Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Donkey
Best
Born
" It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode. "
Elvis Mitchell
Dangerous
Movies
Play
" Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does. "
Elvis Mitchell
Way
Wish
Evil
" 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
" We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this. "
Elvis Mitchell
How
Art
Amazing
" 'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muhammad Ali, is Mr. Mann's first movie with feeling; his overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds. "
Elvis Mitchell
Feeling
Life
Fight
" The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call. "
Elvis Mitchell
Phone Call
Phone
Change
" 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
" Tarantino thinks the Bing is a great room for comedy. "
Elvis Mitchell
Great
Comedy
Bing
" Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation. "
Elvis Mitchell
Performance
Than
More
" 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made. "
Elvis Mitchell
Finest
Movies
Made
" The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film. "
Elvis Mitchell
Words
Moments
Beautiful
" 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
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Hurt
Work
Suffering
" The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker. "
Elvis Mitchell
Surprise
Artist
Director
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted. "
Elvis Mitchell
Been
Out
Plot
" Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos. "
Elvis Mitchell
Chaos
Together
Single
" 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
" Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times. "
Elvis Mitchell
Patriotism
Racism
War
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Say
You
Fire
" If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,' he has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable. "
Elvis Mitchell
American
Best
Time
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Movies
Enough
Moments
" People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Superman
Character
Think