Lucky You
Running time 124 minutes
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Written by Eric Roth
Starring Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana
Curtis Hanson’s Lucky You, from a screenplay by Eric Roth and Mr. Hanson, based on a story by Mr. Roth, may have been intended to cash in on the ongoing multimedia Read More
Lucky You
Running Time 124 minutes
Written by Eric Roth
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Starring Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana
Lucky You has been gathering dust on the “whatever were they thinking of?” shelf for two years. One look and you know why. It’s a ponderous, anemic bore about how Read More
Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mil e, from a screenplay by Scott Silver, has provided me with my brightest and most surprising pop-music epiphany since the Beatles in Richard Lester and Alun Owen’s A Hard Day’s Night shook up all my critical preconceptions 38 years ago and made me proclaim A Hard Day’s Night “the Citizen Kane Read More
The acting debut of repugnant rap star Eminem in a thing called 8 Mile can be summed up in one sentence: If he coulda he woulda, but he cain’t so he ain’t. This brainless debacle, tailored for the insurmountable limitations of its star attraction, was headed for vehicular homicide before it left the factory. Who Read More
Now that the 1997 Academy Award nominations have been announced, it is as good a time as any for me to predict the winners in the major categories, along with my own choices if I were eligible to vote. To begin with, Titanic seems to be as overwhelming a favorite to win best picture as Read More
Of late I have been consumed by L.A. Confidential (directed by Curtis Hanson, from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland and Mr. Hanson, based on a novel by James Ellroy), as well as the overall phenomenon of film noir. From its first screenings at this spring’s Cannes Film Festival, L.A. Confidential has been deluged by critical Read More
It’s too early to predict prizes, but when we get around to the best film of 1997, L.A. Confidential will be hard to beat. I’ve already seen it twice, and I can honestly tell you it’s merely sensational. The world has always been fascinated to the point of obsession with the seductive images of endless Read More
