Reel's Jeffrey Wells reports today on the script of an upcoming film called 21 Grams. Wells describes it as a "dark, intensely emotional piece about guilt, betrayal, death and random fate." It marks the first English language film for Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, whose similarly-themed Amores Perros was one of the best films of last year. It begins shooting in December. I'd be excited about this movie just based on my affection for Amores Perros...but it gets even better when I read that 21 Grams will feature Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts. So you're saying it stars two of the most provocative actors working today and the actress who gave hands-down the best performance of last year -- male or female -- in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive? Yeah, I think I'll pay to see it. About Guillermo Arriago's screenplay, Wells writes: "I was blown away by the script. As soon as I finished reading it I said out loud to no one in particular (even though there were people in the room), "Whoa!"
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
RANDOM MUSINGS - During my trip to Pennsylvania last weekend I had the pleasure of eating breakfast with a man named Sheldon Levine. And here's the best part -- he's a salesman. Shelley Levene, of course, is Jack Lemmon's desperate real estate salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross, the David Mamet-penned film based on his Pulitzer Prize winning play. When our waitress handed him a cup of coffee I wanted so badly to shout, "Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only!" a la Alec Baldwin in the movie. Fortunately, I was able to restrain myself. If you haven't seen it, Glengarry is one of the saddest, most frustrating, darkly comic -- not to mention most quotable -- films of the 90s. The cast -- Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, pre-movie star Kevin Spacey, and Baldwin (in a small but memorable role) -- is phenomenal, and handles Mamet's idiosyncratic dialogue better than any other cast before or since. Visit The Unofficial Glengarry Glen Ross Site, which provides the complete dialogue from Baldwin's hilariously abusive "Sales Conference." First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
Reel's Jeffrey Wells reports today on the script of an upcoming film called 21 Grams. Wells describes it as a "dark, intensely emotional piece about guilt, betrayal, death and random fate." It marks the first English language film for Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, whose similarly-themed Amores Perros was one of the best films of last year. It begins shooting in December. I'd be excited about this movie just based on my affection for Amores Perros...but it gets even better when I read that 21 Grams will feature Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts. So you're saying it stars two of the most provocative actors working today and the actress who gave hands-down the best performance of last year -- male or female -- in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive? Yeah, I think I'll pay to see it. About Guillermo Arriago's screenplay, Wells writes: "I was blown away by the script. As soon as I finished reading it I said out loud to no one in particular (even though there were people in the room), "Whoa!"
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Reel's Jeffrey Wells reports today on the script of an upcoming film called 21 Grams. Wells describes it as a "dark, intensely emotional piece about guilt, betrayal, death and random fate." It marks the first English language film for Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, whose similarly-themed Amores Perros was one of the best films of last year. It begins shooting in December. I'd be excited about this movie just based on my affection for Amores Perros...but it gets even better when I read that 21 Grams will feature Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts. So you're saying it stars two of the most provocative actors working today and the actress who gave hands-down the best performance of last year -- male or female -- in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive? Yeah, I think I'll pay to see it. About Guillermo Arriago's screenplay, Wells writes: "I was blown away by the script. As soon as I finished reading it I said out loud to no one in particular (even though there were people in the room), "Whoa!"
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