New Film Adaptation of "The Merchant of Venice" Takes Complex Look at Human Nature
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 7,2004 - NEW YORK- Most would agree, the world is a fragile and frightening place in the way that human lives are slaughtered in the name of religion.
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A good story and great performances make this an engrossing film to watch.
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Christopher Nolan's new film is worth a watch.
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The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with "Atonement", an adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel about a girl who makes a false accusation with tragic results and tries to atone for her mistake.
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Natalie Portman and the Inquisition-- they don't always mesh, but Milos Forman's film has its rewards
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The second film in less that a year to  focus on writer Truman Capote has premiered in Venice.
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Kenneth Branagh's movie of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute is to be launched later at the Venice Film Festival.
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Thereâsa magic in the Broadway musical that seems to transcend cultural styles and circumstances and generations. Whether breaking new ground or reviving a classic
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The gorgeously rendered  adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" -- and one shot in  particular -- is generating attention.
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Dito Montiel's autobiographical tale is so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it.
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Like the more successful Merchant-Ivory period dramas, "The Painted Veil" effectively blends highbrow literary pretension with powerful cinematic drama &#151; an evocative, passionate romantic triangle set among Brits living in 1920s China.
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VENICE, Italy  - Fluid motion and glorious colors provide a visual treat in Jiang Wen's sumptuous romantic fantasy "The Sun Also Rises," which screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
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The Oscar-nominated spy film stands out because its characters are allowed to be more than mere plot devices.
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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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Yaron Zilberman's moving documentary approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
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Breach, a movie about Robert Hanssen's betrayal, isn't just a good and subtle thriller, but one of the great studies of abnormal psychology
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Will Smith's next film feels familiar, as the message of man messing with nature without fully considering the implications inherent in that messing about is a resonant one.