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The Onion
A.V. Club's
first book assembles 68 of its best interviews with entertainment's most enduring outsiders.
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| September 29, 2004 |
Volume 40 Issue 39 |
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Interview with: John Sayles |
John Sayles started out as a short-story writer, a novelist, and eventually a screenwriter for Roger Corman; to this day, his writing helps pay the bills, as he works on the scripts for movies like The Howling, The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Apollo 13, The Alamo, and Jurassic Park IV. His published novels include Los Gusanos, Pride Of The Bimbos, and Union Dues, and his new short-story collection Dillinger In Hollywood comes out in early October.
But Sayles remains best known for the films he writes, directs, edits, occasionally acts in, and finances independently. Starting...
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"See the world without leaving Beijing," runs the motto of a wondrously kitschy amusement park in Jia Zhang-ke's The World, one of the scant auteur highlights of the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. Centering on a chirpy showgirl who performs cheesy musical revues in regional costume—whether she's in a sari or a kimono, the dances all look the same—The World never fails to register...
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| Shark Tale |
Interpol |
Like any studio-financed, machine-pressed animation production, Shark Tale—Dreamworks' feeble response to Pixar's superior Finding Nemo—has several credited directors and writers. But the real, uncredited architects are a bunch of kids in the mall: Every single joke, character detail, music montage, and pop-culture reference looks extensively market-tested, whether via screenings, focus groups, or...
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Too much formula tinkering wouldn't have served icy-cool New York band Interpol well for its second album: It's taken two years for the dark, fantastic grandiosity of Turn On The Bright Lights to sink into the pop consciousness, and any sort of hard stylistic turn with Antics could and probably would stymie that momentum. The alternative, to borrow an election-year phrase, is to stay the course, and that's...
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| Angels In America |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
Angels In America dominated this year's Emmys, and rightfully so: From its source material to its scope to its cast to its length to its structure, the minseries boldly announces itself as one for the ages. Thanks to a phenomenal cast, Mike Nichols' sensitive direction, and Tony Kushner's script, it generally achieves its...
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Every now and then, a strikingly original and popular work temporarily levels the playing field for genre fiction. What Star Wars did for science-fiction movies, Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings films did for fantasy epics, and Alan Moore's Watchmen did for superhero comics, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books have...
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| Hudson Hawk |
David Singer & The Sweet Science |
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When a Pegasus statue that resembles the TriStar logo collapses on Willis, Lehmann muses, "Now, why would we have the studio logo hit Bruce Willis in the face? I don't know. You can answer...
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David Singer & The Sweet Science's newest album is titled The Stars Burn Out.
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