How to Escape Depravity: "The Woodsman" Survives a Perilous Course
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 16, 2004 - NEW YORK - At the Skirball Center just off Washington Square Park in New York, Newmarket Films released "The Woodsman" to select audiences in New York City.
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If an Internet stock story falls in the woods, it does make a sound.
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Religion isnât easy, but itâs rarely looked tougher than it does in this intimate and disturbing film.
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In spite of the teasing promise of its title, Mike Nichols's deft drama does everything it can to push you away.
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Kevin Bacon wants you to know the same thing he told his kids: No children were harmed during the making of his latest film. In "The Woodsman," Bacon gives a career performance as the most reviled of sex offenders, a child molester coming off 12 years in prison for abusing young girls.
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Kevin Bacon had intimate knowledge about his character's love interest while shooting "The Woodsman." She was, after all, Kyra Sedgwick, his love interest in real life.
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Hotel Rwanda is the riveting account of a man finding courage in the midst of genocide
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It was not the lowest round of his career, but it may have been the most courageous one for Tiger Woods. Clearly hampered by upper back pain, Woods somehow
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The combativeness of Brian De PalmaÂs committed admirers often reveals more about the nature of cinephilic ardor than it does about the filmmaker himself.
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Even charming, chiseled-faced actors can have it tough.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.  - An elderly woodsman and  preacher who tends to the sick and is loved by his neighbors. A  hate-filled Klansman who masterminded one of the most notorious  civil rights-era crimes in American history.
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "We can never have enough of nature." His philosophy of Transcendentalism allowed him to live life without resignation as he declared he would accept "the whole and genuine meanness" of living. The wildfires that currently afflict Southern California residents who may have embraced the same philosophy are perhaps an unforeseen "meanness" that is now a fact of life in the woods. Wired's How To Wiki gives a few pointers about preparing for and surviving the now-notorious wildfire season.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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Shotgun at the ready, I inched along the muddy path toward a ramshackle wood shed shrouded in the foggy distance. After countless run-ins with possessed villagers in the new video game "Resident Evil 4," I'd learned to take each step with trepidation.
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At the heart of &quot;The  Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford&quot; lies an  obsessive, destructive relationship between two disparate yet  oddly similar men. One eventually will kill the other.