The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,'… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr.… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised;… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the movies was the megahit. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
