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" People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Superman
Character
Think
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" The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This may be the final frontier for pop, more unbelievable than the prospect of launching a member of 'N Sync into orbit. "
Elvis Mitchell
Mission
Sympathy
White
" What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of the crossbreeding of the suffering-from-gigantism movies of the 1950s and the 1990 B-picture classic 'Tremors.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Most
Movies
1950s
" The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich. "
Elvis Mitchell
Space
Like
Gene
" It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case. "
Elvis Mitchell
Smile
Matters
True
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tough
Team
Good
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Film
Work
Look
" 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
" 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
" '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
" If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to. "
Elvis Mitchell
Work
One Thing
Attack
" 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
" 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
" '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
" Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director. "
Elvis Mitchell
Director
Best
Own
" Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health. "
Elvis Mitchell
Political
Health
Almost
" '8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country. "
Elvis Mitchell
Country
Class
Clowns
" LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up. "
Elvis Mitchell
Art
Big
Leg
" For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood. "
Elvis Mitchell
Best
Large
Misunderstood
" I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum. "
Elvis Mitchell
Love
Moving
Museum
" 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
" Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case. "
Elvis Mitchell
Old
Plagiarism
School
" I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band. "
Elvis Mitchell
Late
Legend
American
" The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "
Elvis Mitchell
First
Influence
Better
" 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
" There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. "
Elvis Mitchell
Traditions
Unique
Storytelling
" Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life. "
Elvis Mitchell
Time
Passion
Life
" Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit. "
Elvis Mitchell
Movies
Worst
Worst Thing
" Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy. "
Elvis Mitchell
Never
Become
Lighter
" 'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes. "
Elvis Mitchell
Plan
New
Space
" 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