Released on: 2001
Rating: 7.20
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Review: Julian Schnabel Loses His Gift for Subtlety -- At Least for Now -- in Middle East Drama Miral
Julian Schnabel's Miral is a fictional (though somewhat fact-based) story set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I had high hopes for the picture, since Schnabel's last feature, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, was one of my favorite movies of the past decade. Miral is, paradoxically, both more modest and more ambitious than Diving Bell: Here, Schnabel doesn't have to face the challenge of getting inside the mind of a man who's almost completely sealed off from the world; on the other hand, he's treading into extremely sticky political territory here, and the story he's trying to tell -- in which the lives of four women intertwine, over a span of some 45 years -- is technically more complicated.»
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Vanderbilt Writing Amazing Spider-Man 2
Major movie studio in planning for second film in huge franchise-in-waiting before first outing is even done shooting non-shocker! Okay, okay, we’ll cut the snark. But it really does look like Sony is following a predictable path with The Amazing Spider-Man, and has hired the film’s main writer, James Vanderbilt, to kick off the script for a sequel. After being brought aboard to work on ideas and drafts for Spider-Man 4 when Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were still attached to that incarnation of Peter Parker’s universe, Vanderbilt was maintained when the Raimi-flavoured follow-up was shut down and the focus was shifted to a reboot.And though Vanderbilt originally pitched several films in a possible series, his work on The Amazing Spider-Man has largely been limited to this first new movie, which sees Andrew Garfield take over the spider-suit for director Marc Webb.But it would appear that»
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