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From: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com (movies-digest) To: movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: movies-digest V2 #132 Reply-To: movies-digest Sender: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-movies-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk movies-digest Tuesday, November 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 132 [MV] Film Threat Weekly : 11-16-98 : Take 47 RE: [MV] Movie News - 11/14/98 RE: [MV] Movie News - 11/14/98 [MV] a bug's life Re: [MV] a bug's life [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan Re: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan Re: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan [MV] REVIEW: A BUG'S LIFE RE: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan RE: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan [MV] ESSAY: And The Nominees Could Be (If Anyone Remembers)... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:01:12 EST From: FTWeekly00@aol.com Subject: [MV] Film Threat Weekly : 11-16-98 : Take 47 FILM THREAT WEEKLY "Hollywood's Indie Voice of the New Millennium" ============================= Take 47 : November 16th, 1998 ============================= http://www.filmthreat.com ============================= "You only gave me books with the word Death in the title." - - Diane Keaton from Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" <===========Deluxe======Widescreen======Edition ===========> THIS WEEK "Right here, right now." =========================================== ùù> NEWS: Where objectivity is strangely absent. ùù> BOXOFFICE CHART: Who's number one at the boxoffice? ùù> PICKS OF THE WEEK: A load of plugs. ùù> BIG SCREEN: A Bug's Life, Celebrity, I Still Know..., more... ùù> MICROCINEFEST: Baltimore's Underground Film Festival ùù> HATE MAIL: You like us. You really like us. SUBSCRIBE "Unless you already did." =========================================== Subscribe/Unsubscribe by sending an e-mail to FilmThreat@aol.com. CLASSIFIEDS "If you advertise, they will come." =========================================== Reach over 65,000 film fanatics on the net. For our reasonable ad rates, e- mail filmthreat@aol.com. NO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL 1999 NO DANCE Film & Multimedia Festival returns to Park City. DEADLINE APPROACHING - NOVEMBER 20TH - FIRST EVER DVD FESTIVAL - CHECK WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS - ONE DAY - ONE EVENT - ONE MOUNTAIN. http://www.6161.com UNIQUE VIDEO GIFTS FROM ATOMIC HOLLYWOOD Hundreds of mostly hard-to-find, seldom-seen videos are gifts that are greatly appreciated. FREE Request Line for worldwide title search, plus THOUSANDS of available DVD and laser titles now can be e-mailed. Film Threat Weekly subscribers receive a $3.00 discount on any title ordered before New Year's when they include "FTW" in the "discount" space. http://www.atomic-hollywood.com HOTTEST SELLING SCREENWRITER BOOK IN HOLLYWOOD Last week Paul Argentini's "ELEMENTS OF STYLE FOR SCREENWRITERS: The Essential Manual for Writers of Screenplays" ($11.95, from LONE EAGLE PUBLISHING) entered the Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List by knocking off the Michael Eisner and Jackie Chan biographies. Argentini presents an essential reference masterpiece in the art of clear and concise principles of screenplay formatting, structure and style for screenwriters. Argentini explains how to design and format manuscripts to impress any film school professor, story editor, agent, producer or studio executive. No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any screenwriter more than this persistent volume. * A to Z listing of format terms and examples * Incorporates recent changes in acceptable screenplay format submissions * Includes a special section on playwrite formatting * Complete listing of literary agencies that represent screenwriters Many professional screenwriters will advise keeping a copy of this book at arms reach and refer to reading this very handy little book cover-to-cover once a year. If you do any regular writing or screenwriting, then follow the advice. Call (800) 345-6257 to order direct! Mention FILM THREAT WEEKLY to receive a 25 percent special discount! http://www.loneeagle.com WIN A FILM THREAT VIDEO! "Sign up a friend!" =========================================== Each week we'll be giving away a special collectible Film Threat Party Video to readers who forward Film Threat Weekly to their friends! (And you know in Hollywood, "friends" is a loose term, so that means just about anybody!!!) You could WIN, too! The more e-mail addresses you send, the more your chances to win. Sign up your whole family, or your whole company! Start forwarding FTW to your pals or send us their e-mail address and we'll send them a weekly fix of Film Threat. That's not a threat, it's a promise. THE NEWS "Filtered and manipulated. Just like the real news." =========================================== Our top story... CHARGES AGAINST TARANTINO DISMISSED, COUNTERSUIT CONSIDERED Judge Judith Levitt of the New York County Criminal Court today ordered the dismissal of assault charges which had been lodged against Mr. Tarantino as a result of a barroom altercation which occurred in May of 1998. The New York County District Attorney's Office moved for the dismissal after interviewing Mr. Tarantino and other witnesses to the altercation. "We supplied to the district attorney's office the name of a witness who severely undermined the credibility of the complainant, Leila Mwangi," commented Paul F. Callan, attorney to Quentin Tarantino. "The witness revealed that Ms. Mwangi's boyfriend, Barron Claiborne, a professional photographer, had admitted to doctoring photographs of Ms. Mwangi to make it appear that she had been seriously injured in the incident. This is a clear case of celebrity stalking and a celebrity shakedown. The arrest of Mr. Tarantino was an abuse of the criminal justice system designed to force Mr. Tarantino to pay money in a 15 million dollar civil suit which has been filed by Ms. Mwangi." Attorney Callan continued, "I will be discussing with Mr. Tarantino the possibility of filing a countersuit for assault, malicious prosecution and abuse of process against Ms. Mwangi and Mr. Claiborne in civil court now that Mr. Tarantino has been completely exonerated in the criminal case. I want to thank ADA Julio Cuevas and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau for having the courage and integrity to dismiss these false charges after a full and fair investigation." We all thought Quentin was tough? His bad boy image is a fake? Wow, we are all disappointed. STAR WARS EPISODE 1 TRAILER DEBUTS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH Get ready to sneak your video cameras into movie theaters, the first expanded glimpse into the new Star Wars film happens at select theaters this Tuesday. Reactions from those who have seen the two-minute trailer have been from audible gasps to "Oh my God." The excitement starts on the net as the race begins for the first web site to have the trailer available as a download. Expect a full review of the trailer on the Film Threat site later this week. Check the official Star Wars site for theaters and showtimes. http://www.starwars.com Look for updates this week at Film Threat Online in the Dailies section at: http://www.filmthreat.com/Dailies-Today.htm BOXOFFICE CHART "Hollywood's Horse Race... and they're off!" =========================================== Weekend of November 13-15, Source: Exhibitor Relations Co. 1/ 1 THE WATERBOY $25.2/$80.0 2/New I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER $17.5 3/New MEET JOE BLACK $15.6 4/ 2 THE SIEGE $8.3/$26.6 5/ 4 ANTZ $4.2/$81.3 6/ 3 PLEASANTVILLE $4.1/$32.1 7/New I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS $4.0 8/ 5 THE WIZARD OF OZ $3.3/$10.6 9/ 6 LIVING OUT LOUD $2.7/$8.7 10/10 RUSH HOUR $2.0/$130.0 PICKS OF THE WEEK "Stuff we wanna plug." =========================================== FILM FESTIVAL: "First there was Texas. Then there was Austin. Then there was SXSW. The three go together like a hand in a glove." -- Quentin "Cleared of All Charges" Tarantino. SXSW is just around the corner. Nine days of the best new independent film, March 12-20, 1999. Register at the lowest rate for the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival. Through November 30 the price is only $125. For that you get: ALL the panels and meetings, ALL the parties, ALL the films and much more! South By Southwest Film Festival & Conference, PO Box 4999, Austin TX 78765, film@sxsw.com. http://www.sxsw.com ANOTHER FILM FESTIVAL: Sponsored by Black Talent News, The Hollywood Black Film Festival is a dynamic forum to showcase the work of emerging and established filmmakers (directors and writers). The non-profit Hollywood Black Film Festival (is seeking volunteers to work in the areas of Community Outreach, Festival Programming, Conference Coordination and Graphic Design for its first annual Festival scheduled for February 19-21 at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-television (USC). "The HBFF provides an excellent opportunity for students and professionals with an interest in film, event planning, public relations, and other areas to obtain valuable, hands-on experience," said Tanya Kersey- Henley, Founder and Executive Director of the Festival. "We've been receiving inquiries from enthusiastic people wanting to volunteer ever since the Festival was first announced in August, so we're responding with an official Call for Volunteers." Call 310-348-3944. http://www.hbff.org WEB SITE: If you are a fan of "Lawrence of Arabia" then there is no better place to visit than DavidLean.com. A site totally devoted to the films of David Lean which includes director's notes on the re-editing of "Lawrence of Arabia." Great stuff. http://www.davidlean.com. DVD: Abel Ferrara's dark cop tale "Bad Lieutenant" is available for the first time on DVD. Harvey Keitel takes self-destruction to new limits in the performance of his career -- and does it all with full frontal nudity! (Keitel's penis should get his own agent after so many on screen appearances.) Get a great deal on "Bad Lieutenant" and learn how to win a Toshiba SD-2108 DVD player from DVD EXPRESS. They're giving away a DVD player every day in November. Thirty Days, 30 Players, 30 Winners! Find out why DVD is going to rock your livingroom. And tell 'em Film Threat sent you. http://www.dvdexpress.com BIG SCREEN "Coming Soon to a Theater Near You" =========================================== From five stars "Perfect! * * * * *" to one star "Crap! *" here's the lowdown. A BUG'S LIFE (G) * * * * 1/2 (http://www.disney.com/DisneyPictures/bugslife) Now I've seen them both. I remember thinking "The Truman Show" was pretty good until I saw "Pleasantville". While "ANTZ" is essentially a great Woody Allen film, John Lasseter has again set the bar with the superior "A Bug's Life". There's been speculation that Jeffrey Katzenberg may have "borrowed" from the new Pixar/Disney film which was under development while he was still at Disney for Dreamworks' "ANTZ". They have a number of similarities. In "ANTZ", we follow Z (Woody Allen), an ant who thinks differently than his brethren ants. He falls in love with the princess ant (Sharon Stone), must leave the colony due to a major screw-up after they laud him as a hero from a plan gone awry, and eventually save the colony from a massive threat to become a true hero. Ditto, "A Bug's Life". Flik (Dave Foley), an inventor, always wants to help the colony but usually screws it up. Every year, a gang of grasshoppers led by the evil Hopper (Kevin Spacey) invade and take their existing food supply. One of Flik's inventions accidently knocks out a support rock and loses all of the food. Hopper tells the ants they have until the end of the summer to make it up, the time when the ants normally gather all of their own food for the winter. Flik decides to leave the colony and find some bigger bugs to fight off the loathsome locusts. What he finds are a group of rejects from a flea circus. There's Manny, the praying mantis magician played by Jonathan Harris just like his Dr. Smith in "Lost in Space"; Francis, a gender-confused male ladybug (Denis Leary); and an assortment of other wacky insects. Once this group enters the picture, the movie moves to a whole new level. Flik and the circus bugs learn to work to each of their strengths as they search for a way to fend off the swarm. As expected, nothing works out smoothly. When I saw "ANTZ", I thought it was good, but missing something to push it over the top. I couldn't figure out what it was. After seeing a different approach to the CGI ant premise, I understood what it was. In "ANTZ", the crisis came from within their closed society. Other insects appeared, but were generally superfluous to the story. The majority of the story concerns red-brown ants within a dirt brown setting. The movie picked up greatly when they went outside. It's also only outside where we come in contact with insects that could be understood as "wacky". "A Bug's Life" has a variety of settings with a variety of bugs and colors. The threat comes from outside. While the Dreamworks film is targeted at adults, this is a family film. There's a great deal of wackiness. While "ANTZ" has a cool, sort of airbrushed storybook texture to itself, this movie is something else, entirely. It doesn't even look like "Toy Story". Which brings to mind "ANTZ" is the first attempt by Pacific Data Images and Dreamworks at creating a full length film. The PIXAR team on a "A Bug's Life" is much the same as the on "Toy Story", most importantly including director John Lasseter. PIXAR has had the chance to develop new technology based on the lessons they've learned from "Toy Story" and their short films, such as the oscar winning "Geri's Game". Despite similarities, these are two different films and should be judged on their own merits. "ANTZ" is a far better Woody Allen film than "Celebrity", and not a bad date film. "A Bug's Life", however, is a classic. It's better than the last several Disney animated films. PIXAR has stated they want to be the second successful feature animation studio. They're already there. - Ron Wells I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (R) * 1/2 (http://www.istillknow.com) Kill-miester Ben Willis is back to wreak havoc once again on Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt). This time Ben, who still looks strikingly like the Morton's Fisherman (the guy on a box of frozen fish sticks) stalks Julie and her three friends to the Caribbean in the middle of rainy season to continue the revenge he started in the first film. However this time, it seems they left the suspense back on the mainland. The main problem with the film, besides the fact that it should have been called, "I Know What You Did Two Summers Ago", (the story takes place one year after the original), is that it lacks humor. Unlike "Scream", this film is more of a horror-drama, with everybody taking themselves way too seriously. Director Danny Cannon didn't have any fun with the horror conventions, and missed every opportunity for humorous tension breakers. They were too busy making a conventional slasher film to have a little fun. The film opens a year after the first film, when Kate (Brandy) wins an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas on a radio promotion. She decides to take her roommate Julie (Hewitt), her boyfriend (Mekhi Phifer), and their new friend (Matthew Settle) on the getaway. Julie is still uneasy one year after she was nearly killed by a bloody stalker and feels the Bahamas is safer than her hometown, where the horrible incident took place. Once at the exotic resort, a whole cast of suspicious islanders (kind of an R-rated version of Gilligan's Island) are systematically eliminated, leaving Julie no choice but to explain to her friends that Ben Willis' body was never found. Our four heroes must fend for themselves as they realize that they are the next victims of the fish sticks guy. Unfortunately, nothing in this movie is very surprising. I was more afraid of what was in my popcorn's butter-flavoring than I was of what was up on the screen. Of course a hurricane is moving in and all the phone lines are down, and of course the people who say "stay here, I'm gonna check out the shed" don't come back. The slow pace of the film really gave me time to wonder why this Fisherman is so obsessed with this girl. So she tried to kill you one day and left you for road kill. So what. Give it up. Get some therapy. GO ON WITH YOUR LIFE! Or at least try to reason with her, it might make for a more interesting movie. - Chris Gore CELEBRITY (R) * * * 1/2 - Without Kenneth Branagh * - When Kenneth Branagh is onscreen (http://www.miramax.com) I can't really remember the last time I saw a movie with this much biting satire and brilliance and was utterly excruciating half the time. I've generally hated Kenneth Branagh. He's always struck me as amazingly pretentious while concentrating on the surface tics and mannerisms of a character at the expense of depth or heart. Nothing seems to come from deep within. I had changed my mind after "Gingerbread Man", but then again, he was playing a jerk. If you've been waiting for Bard-boy to do his Woody Allen imitation, you are in luck. The core of "Celebrity" is the breakup of Lee (Kenneth Branagh) and Robin Simon (Judy Davis). A travel writer, Lee attends his high school reunion, inciting reflection on his life. He freaks out. Lee doesn't want to be married to a schoolteacher while writing travel articles. He leaves Robin to work on his novels and write entertainment journalism. An entertainment journalist is like a parent. You need neither aptitude nor competence to become one. He works through his bizarre encounters with various celebrities that leave him much the worse for wear. Robin hits bottom after the divorce. After making the rounds through various forms of therapy, she flirts with cosmetic surgery when she has a chance encounter with a television producer played by Joe Mantegna. Her life takes a very different path from there. What is Allen trying to accomplish here? While in "Deconstructing Harry" he sort of explained himself while flipping off his critics, this picture obliquely explores the nature of celebrity while flipping off the most aspects of the entertainment industry. It's too bad he couldn't call the film "Starf**kers", an equally appropriate name. Lee encounters a star actress (Melanie Griffith), a supermodel (Charlize Theron), and a hot young Hollywood star (Leonardo DiCaprio). These vignettes leave him bruised. In the process, Allen demonstrates the horror of the people our society chooses to celebrate, and the kind of behavior we're willing to except from them. DiCaprio's actor is coked to the gills and out of his mind for his entire ten minute piece (as if Leo has some flipping off of his own to do). The supermodel is a sociopath in heat and the actress seems to have a definition of sex not unlike that of our sitting president. Lee and Robin take separate paths through show business and occasionally meet again by chance, twice in a movie theatre. The first time, Lee is cruising to success as his ex-wife is pulling her life together. The second time, his wife, now everything he could have wanted, is the object of attention. Lee's problem is that he never seems to learn. A good writer is usually a great liar, but he's mainly lying to himself. He keeps dumping women for someone younger and cuter. Lee's too busy looking for a fantasy. Robin succeeds by grasping what's in front of her. Though at times she too needs a reality check, she takes the opportunities for what they are and works with them. The only decent characters in the film are the ones that can ignore the distractions of, well, 'celebrity'. The others are sad, pathetic, or demonic. Speaking of demonic, Branagh and Davis seem to be portraying younger versions of Allen and Mia Farrow. Davis, thankfully, doesn't take it LITERALLY. Branagh reproduces Allen's vocal inflections. The problem is that he doesn't possess Allen's affableness to counteract the non-stop whining. After a few minutes of this, I was ready to claw my own eyes out. I only stayed with the film because of Davis and the fierceness of the writing. Allen doesn't let himself off the hook, either. One character mocks the effects of viewing a film at a press screening (like I did) instead of a real audience while ridiculing the pretensiousness of filmmakers who insist on shooting their films in black and white (like this one). If I could have just watched the Davis scenes, I would have been happier, but Allen needed a stand- in and a patsy, so we got Branagh. His fate could have been tragic if he didn't earn it. - Ron Wells MICROCINEFEST: Baltimore's Underground Film Festival =========================================== by Charles Cohen After the second annual Microcinefest in Baltimore, Skizz Cyzyk did what most any program director does -- he went to a party. There he stood worried in the proverbial after-hour's warehouse loft, complete with the gallery and beat-up elevator. "I only hope we made enough money to send the films back," he said. "Postage is expensive and those things are bulky and they're heavy." Such is the tragic beauty and conundrum of pulling off a successful underground film festival.... To read the complete story, go to Film Threat Online in the Dailies section at: http://www.filmthreat.com/Dailies-Today.htm HATE MAIL: You like us. You really like us. =========================================== CRITICAL ANALYSIS Kudos on your writing. Although most would take your spelling of "martial law" as "Marshall Law" in your review of "The Siege" as an overlooked error, I recognized it as a great legal pun. You're very right to equate the power-grabbing Federalism of our greatest Chief Justice, John Marshall, with the near-fascism of Gen. Devereaux (Bruce Willis's character) from "The Siege." The General truly represents the tyrannical central government, oppressive of its own people, that anti-Federalists of Marshall's day were certain he was creating. 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Rudy **************************************************************************** ***** Gregory Allen Swarthout 4515 Jarrah Street Murray, UT 84123 (801) 265-9680 COMPUTER SKILLS & EXPERIENCE ============================ General: 18 years programming experience at work, school, and home including proficiency in: C, C++, BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, CGI, HTML, Java, Pascal, Scheme, 6502 Assembly, 68000 Assembly, Visual Basic Software packages: Borland C/C++, Turbo C, WordPerfect, Harvard Graphics, ProComm, Lotus 1-2-3, DecNet, Q&A, ccMail, Paradox, Quattro Pro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Netscape, Internet Explorer, many others Operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows NT/95/3.1, Unix, VAX/VMS WORK EXPERIENCE =============== Auto-Soft Corporation Salt Lake City, UT Position: Software Engineer Duties: Programming a material control system in Java with a GUI front end. Thiokol Corporation Brigham City, UT Position: Web Programmer Duties: Initially, programmed in C with embedded SQL and Motif on the Shop Floor Management System. After one year, moved to company's web team and headed up initial design of, and special projects for, the corporate Intranet. Also, taught weekly classes in HTML to employees. Primavera Systems, Inc. Salt Lake City, UT Position: Shipping Manager Duties: Designed and programmed shipping/receiving system, oversaw all shipping/receiving. Computer Data Systems, Inc. Salt Lake City, UT Position: Programmer/Data Entry Duties: Programming WordPerfect macros, data entry including OCR, manned Help Desk, Fortran and C programming on a VAX/VMS system, database management using in-house system. EDUCATION ========= Weber State University - Ogden, UT - BS in Information Systems & Technology (March '96) MISCELLANEOUS ============= 6+ years experience working as a columnist for the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin Proficiency with the Internet, including Web page design and mailing list administration Well-equipped home computer system (Windows 95) SALARY REQUIREMENT ================== $55,000 - $65,000 REFERENCES ========== Available upon request [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 98 10:08:51 PST From: Wade Snider <wsnider@brazoselectric.com> Subject: RE: [MV] Movie News - 11/14/98 No joke! - --- On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:48:04 -0700 jkrudy <jkrudy@micron.com> wrote: So we're now receiving Resumes on this list? What's up with that?????? James K. Rudy **************************************************************************** ***** Gregory Allen Swarthout 4515 Jarrah Street Murray, UT 84123 (801) 265-9680 COMPUTER SKILLS & EXPERIENCE ============================ General: 18 years programming experience at work, school, and home including proficiency in: C, C++, BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, CGI, HTML, Java, Pascal, Scheme, 6502 Assembly, 68000 Assembly, Visual Basic Software packages: Borland C/C++, Turbo C, WordPerfect, Harvard Graphics, ProComm, Lotus 1-2-3, DecNet, Q&A, ccMail, Paradox, Quattro Pro, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Netscape, Internet Explorer, many others Operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows NT/95/3.1, Unix, VAX/VMS WORK EXPERIENCE =============== Auto-Soft Corporation Salt Lake City, UT Position: Software Engineer Duties: Programming a material control system in Java with a GUI front end. Thiokol Corporation Brigham City, UT Position: Web Programmer Duties: Initially, programmed in C with embedded SQL and Motif on the Shop Floor Management System. After one year, moved to company's web team and headed up initial design of, and special projects for, the corporate Intranet. Also, taught weekly classes in HTML to employees. Primavera Systems, Inc. Salt Lake City, UT Position: Shipping Manager Duties: Designed and programmed shipping/receiving system, oversaw all shipping/receiving. Computer Data Systems, Inc. Salt Lake City, UT Position: Programmer/Data Entry Duties: Programming WordPerfect macros, data entry including OCR, manned Help Desk, Fortran and C programming on a VAX/VMS system, database management using in-house system. EDUCATION ========= Weber State University - Ogden, UT - BS in Information Systems & Technology (March '96) MISCELLANEOUS ============= 6+ years experience working as a columnist for the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin Proficiency with the Internet, including Web page design and mailing list administration Well-equipped home computer system (Windows 95) SALARY REQUIREMENT ================== $55,000 - $65,000 REFERENCES ========== Available upon request [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - ---------------End of Original Message----------------- - -------------------------------------------------------- W. Snider If man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes? - -------------------------------------------------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:20:21 -0800 From: "Romero, Leticia" <lromero@saonet.ucla.edu> Subject: [MV] a bug's life You must see this movie!!! and stay for the end credits!! [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:30:14 -0700 From: "Gregory A. Swarthout" <gregorys@xmission.com> Subject: Re: [MV] a bug's life Yes, the end credits are the best part of the film. On the whole, though, I prefer Toy Story. Romero, Leticia wrote: > > You must see this movie!!! and stay for the end credits!! > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:07:09 +0800 (HKT) From: Jayson <ja970600@balut.admu.edu.ph> Subject: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan I'm having a little trouble identifying the soldiers in this wonderful movie. The only ones I know were (aside from being obvious, they also performed well): Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi and Jeremy Davies. I know the names of the others like Adam Goldberg (?) and the other one but I can't place their faces. Can someone please help me on this one? Thanks! Jayson [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: 17 Nov 98 09:52:56 +0000 From: "ABYRNE.IE.ORACLE.COM" <ABYRNE@ie.oracle.com> Subject: Re: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan - --=_ORCL_6169699_0_0 Content-Transfer-Encoding:quoted-printable Content-Type:text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Barry Pepper is the sniper. The one that was preaching as he shot people. He was pretty good! Thanks & Regards, ****************************************************************************= ** ****************************************************************************= ** Anto Byrne Net:abyrne@ie.oracle.com Oracle E.M.E.A. Fulfillment Dept. Unit 14 Phone:8031461 Airways Industrial Estate Fax:8031541 Cloghran email:abyrne Dublin 17. Ireland ****************************************************************************= ** - --=_ORCL_6169699_0_0 Content-Type:message/rfc822 Date: 17 Nov 98 09:07:09 From:Jayson <ja970600@balut.admu.edu.ph> To:movies@xmission.com Subject:[MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan Reply-to:IEUNIX1.IE.ORACLE.COM:movies@lists.xmission.com Return-Path:<owner-movies@lists.xmission.com> Received:from iedns1.ie.oracle.com by iemail1.ie.oracle.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id IAA27400; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:53:41 GMT Received:from mail-gw3.uk.oracle.com (ukaa04.uk.oracle.com) by iedns1.ie.oracle.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA08024; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:57:28 GMT Received:from uksn98.uk.oracle.com (uksn98.uk.oracle.com [138.3.208.67]) by mail-gw3.uk.oracle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA19585 for <ABYRNE@ie.oracle.com>; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:58:47 GMT Received:from lists.xmission.com ([198.60.22.7]) by uksn98.uk.oracle.com via smtpd (for ukaa04.uk.oracle.com [138.3.208.99]) with SMTP; 17 Nov 1998 08:58:47 UT Received:from domo by lists.xmission.com with local (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zfgxX-0005Qv-00 for movies-goout@lists.xmission.com; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:58:03 -0700 Received:from [198.60.22.22] (helo=mail.xmission.com) by lists.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zfgxV-0005Qa-00 for movies@lists.xmission.com; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:58:01 -0700 Received:from [165.220.4.3] (helo=balut.admu.edu.ph) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zfgwW-0000wC-00 for movies@xmission.com; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:57:40 -0700 Received:from localhost (ja970600@localhost) by balut.admu.edu.ph (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA08210 for <movies@xmission.com>; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:07:09 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id:<Pine.OSF.3.94.981117170256.7305O-100000@balut.admu.edu.ph> Sender:owner-movies@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit I'm having a little trouble identifying the soldiers in this wonderful movie. The only ones I know were (aside from being obvious, they also performed well): Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi and Jeremy Davies. I know the names of the others like Adam Goldberg (?) and the other one but I can't place their faces. Can someone please help me on this one? Thanks! Jayson [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - --=_ORCL_6169699_0_0-- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:04:01 -0800 From: Oz <oz@hollywoodbitchslap.com> Subject: Re: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan Goldberg is (shock) the Jewish soldier. Barry Pepper was the sniper. And Max Martini was the red haired soldier that was shot in the neck before Goldberg was killed. Max is a great guy, worked with him on a film in Vancouver and he said Speilberg used actual amputees as war victims in the shoot. Said it was the most surreal experience in his life to go up to the craft services table and have to push past guys with legs blown off and holes in their guts to get a cup of coffee. My piece of SPR trivia. Oz http://hollywoodbitchslap.com Jayson wrote: > I'm having a little trouble identifying the soldiers in this wonderful > movie. The only ones I know were (aside from being obvious, they also > performed well): Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, > Giovanni Ribisi and Jeremy Davies. I know the names of the others like > Adam Goldberg (?) and the other one but I can't place their faces. Can > someone please help me on this one? > Thanks! > > Jayson > > > > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - -- - -------{{{{OZ}}}}------------------------------------------ [sick of being ripped off at the movies?] ..*HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP*.. TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT --------------http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:52:40 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Renshaw <renshaw@inconnect.com> Subject: [MV] REVIEW: A BUG'S LIFE A BUG'S LIFE (Disney/Pixar) Voices: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, David Hyde Pierce, Denis Leary, Joe Ranft, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind. Screenplay: Andrew Stanton and Donald McEnery & Bob Shaw. Producers: Darla K. Anderson and Kevin Reher. Directors: John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. MPAA Rating: G. Running Time: 95 minutes. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw. A BUG'S LIFE deserves better. It deserves better than to be held up to that other computer-animated insect film from earlier this fall. It deserves better than to be compared to that other feature from Pixar. It's virtually impossible to talk about A BUG'S LIFE without invoking ANTZ and/or TOY STORY, but it deserves better. Films with this much wit, energy and imagination are too uncommon to diminish this one with such petty comparisons. A BUG'S LIFE is not just a delightful computer-animated family film about insects. It's a delightful film. Not that it's a perfect one. It gets off to a slightly sluggish start, introducing an ant colony forced to collect a winter food supply for Hopper (Kevin Spacey), a grasshopper gang leader running an entomological protection racket. Our protagonist Flik (Dave Foley), a dreamer whose innovations tend to cause aggravations for the Queen (Phyllis Diller) and her successor-in-training Princess Atta (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss), inadvertently destroys the grasshopper offering one day, endangering the entire colony. Thus Flik takes it upon himself to head out from Ant Island and find warriors who will defend the ants when the angry grasshoppers return. A BUG'S LIFE doesn't really take off until we meet the "warriors" Flik eventually finds in the big city. In actuality, they're a band of disgraced bug circus performers Flik mistakenly assumes are warriors, including put-upon walking stick bug Slim (David Hyde Pierce), clownish caterpillar Heimlich (Joe Ranft) and the hilarious, imcomprehensible acrobatic pill bug tandem Tuck and Roll (Michael McShane). The botched circus sequence in which they are introduced recalls Warner Bros. cartoons at their most rapid-fire anarchic, with the cast of colorful performers all delivering laughs. Though Foley is a pleasant enough presence, his redemption storyline isn't nearly as interesting as the circus performers' search for an adoring audience. He serves much the same function here as he does on TV's "NewsRadio," acting as the sane center around which more charismatic characters can do their thing. He's also the center around which the animators can do their thing, and they do more than enough things to make for a wonderful ride. The throwaway gags in Flik's visit to the "big city" -- an annoying street mime mimicking Flik's every move, a cricket panhandler with a sign announcing "Wings pulled off by kids" -- are consistently appealing to viewers of all ages. Meanwhile, the big action set pieces, including an attack by a hungry bird, offer splendidly-paced thrills. Director John Lasseter has an uncanny eye for setting up a scene, and a comic sensibility most directors of live action should be willing to kill for. Nowhere is that more evident than during the closing credits, when Lasseter pulls out the kind of brilliant conceit that makes really good films feel like great films. Miss the final five minutes at your own peril. Sure, it would have been nice if A BUG'S LIFE had had a story as tightly constructed as the buddy bonding of Woody and Buzz in TOY STORY. It would have been nice if the lead character had had as distinctive a personality as Woody Allen's Z in ANTZ. Those are the nit-picking details you have to come up with when a film offers as much pure fun as A BUG'S LIFE. Silly enough for kids, smart enough for adults, grandly-staged enough for anyone who loves movies, it offers entertainment that deserves a different kind of comparison. Understand that there probably haven't been a half-dozen better films of _any_ kind this year, and you'll be on to the kind of comparison A BUG'S LIFE really deserves. On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 bug-y rides: 9. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Scott Renshaw's MoviePage http://www.inconnect.com/~renshaw/ *** Subscribe to receive new reviews directly by email! See the MoviePage for details, or reply to this message with subject line "Subscribe". - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:58:36 -0700 From: jkrudy <jkrudy@micron.com> Subject: RE: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan I don't know the others that were with Tom Hanks, but Ted Danson had a role as an American Colonel about half way through the movie. James K. Rudy - -----Original Message----- From: Jayson [mailto:ja970600@balut.admu.edu.ph] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 2:07 AM To: movies@xmission.com Subject: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan I'm having a little trouble identifying the soldiers in this wonderful movie. The only ones I know were (aside from being obvious, they also performed well): Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Giovanni Ribisi and Jeremy Davies. I know the names of the others like Adam Goldberg (?) and the other one but I can't place their faces. Can someone please help me on this one? Thanks! Jayson [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 08:38:30 -0800 From: "Romero, Leticia" <lromero@saonet.ucla.edu> Subject: RE: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan COOL! What are you working on these days? > -----Original Message----- > From: Oz [SMTP:oz@hollywoodbitchslap.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 12:04 AM > To: movies@lists.xmission.com > Subject: Re: [MV] Help on Saving Private Ryan > > Goldberg is (shock) the Jewish soldier. Barry Pepper was the sniper. > And Max Martini was the red haired soldier that was shot in the neck > before Goldberg was killed. > Max is a great guy, worked with him on a film in Vancouver and he said > Speilberg used actual amputees as war victims in the shoot. Said it was > the most surreal experience in his life to go up to the craft services > table and have to push past guys with legs blown off and holes in their > guts to get a cup of coffee. > > My piece of SPR trivia. > > Oz > http://hollywoodbitchslap.com > > Jayson wrote: > > > I'm having a little trouble identifying the soldiers in this wonderful > > movie. The only ones I know were (aside from being obvious, they also > > performed well): Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, > > Giovanni Ribisi and Jeremy Davies. I know the names of the others like > > Adam Goldberg (?) and the other one but I can't place their faces. Can > > someone please help me on this one? > > Thanks! > > > > Jayson > > > > > > > > > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > > [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] > > -- > -------{{{{OZ}}}}------------------------------------------ > [sick of being ripped off at the movies?] > ..*HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP*.. TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT > --------------http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com------------- > > > > [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] > [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] [ To leave the movies mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ movies (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:11:20 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Renshaw <renshaw@inconnect.com> Subject: [MV] ESSAY: And The Nominees Could Be (If Anyone Remembers)... All right, end-of-year-award-hopefuls, it's time to break out the gratitude -- I'm ready to play end of the year publicist for you. I ask for no compensation, merely the recognition that sometimes we nasty critics are on your side. You just need to deserve it by virtue of superior performance, rather than endurance or media omnipresence. In the interest of assisting both Academy members and my fellow critics in preparing their lists of potential nominees, I wanted to draw attention to a few performances from earlier in the year. They deserve better than to be forgotten just because a few months have passed. Many are already available on video, where you can bask both in the glory of great acting and the wisdom of my choices. SUPPORTING ACTOR: Voters generally do like it when a performer shows versatility, taking on types of characters outside their recognized comfort zone. That still doesn't guarantee they'll remember Steve Martin's splendidly icy work in David Mamet's THE SPANISH PRISONER. Martin showed a keen sense both for Mamet's dialogue and for the intricacies of villainy. I'd also be thrilled to see Jason Patric's ruthlessness in YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS get a nod, though his character was far too emotionally brutal for may viewers' comfort. The bad guys often get attention in this category, but these are two bad guys whose unconventional work may get overlooked. SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lisa Kudrow, the most talented comic actress now working anywhere (never let it be said I couch my terms), finally got an overdue Emmy for her work on "Friends" last year. She also deserves Oscar consideration for the best performance in THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, a film with several good performances. In a role that could have been a fussy stereotype of repressed sexuality, Kudrow showed both wit and vulnerability. Vulnerability is also what made Kathy Bates' flashy turn as a political "fixer" in PRIMARY COLORS worth a second look. Her final speech may be a bit too "speechy," but it gives depth to the Colorful Supporting character. LEAD ACTRESS: Remember the name Hope Davis, because you'll be seeing a lot of her in the near future. As the wistful, reluctantly romantic heroine of NEXT STOP WONDERLAND, she brought soul to an otherwise frothy comedy, and a piercing intelligence to every line reading. On the other end of the spectrum is Ally Sheedy's work as a heroin-addicted photographer in HIGH ART. It's hard to tell to what extent her teen queen history added to the resonance of the performance, but her weary crawl back towards the light was something to behold. One on the way up, one on the way back, both probably too little-seen to get serious consideration. LEAD ACTOR: TWO GIRLS AND A GUY was not a very good film; in fact, Natasha Gregson Wagner made it nigh-unwatchable at times. At other times, Robert Downey Jr.'s intensity as a narcissistic actor made it impossible _not_ to watch. Like Sheedy, he brought personal real-world baggage to the role that made him that much more compelling, so convincing at times that it was scary. Vincent Gallo has never found narcissism in short supply, which made plenty of folks inclined to dismiss his practically-one-man-show BUFFALO '66. He gave himself an incredibly difficult role to make sympathetic -- an ex-con inveterate loser who kidnaps a young woman to pose as his wife for his family -- then turned around and did exactly that. It's a film and a performance that have only gotten better the more I think about them. Next: Forgotten gems in some other categories, including screenplays and technical credits. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Scott Renshaw's MoviePage http://www.inconnect.com/~renshaw/ *** Subscribe to receive new reviews directly by email! 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