The Salt Lake Tribune Grant, True Love: Adventures of Hugh and Julia c @ art-like Ste’ ish’ Curtis’ elliy ep school same pr “Four Weddings.” did One day in the west London ighborhood of Notting Hill na ducks into a small bookshop time, trying to decide what isn’t Ww dings” Four Wed did, from a small army of eccentricfriends and relatives for Grant’s character: Will's loopy sister Honey ( mma Chambers) movie-ignorant that he Leonardo DiCaprio is an director sees Anna not istar, but as a person. ind real life, is even more yplicated in a movie about a vvie star. As Will's best pal, Max “You )w what happens whenmortals »isort with the gods, don't you all asking the question “The Thirteenth Floor” is the latest movie Howing “The Matrix” and “eXistenZ to twist the concept of what real and poke much funat the trap: pings of movie-star life. A press junket for Anna’s new movie Kngland, “sod” does not refer lawns) to create an oddlyapwuling sort of high-brow earthimirroring the conflicts be- throws Will into a whirlwind of sycophantic reporters and silly interviews. Hiding out from the tabloids after a scandal breaks (something both stars knowa lit tle about), Annatells secrets about iween the headand theheart Director Roger Michell (whose previous film was “Persuasion,” negotiations and Mel he most luminous of the Jane \usten adaptations) sometimes if Roberts’ of “Notting Hill,” their movie-star presence that undefinable qual ity that makes a face on a two story-tall movie screen seem nat ling time. But his passage-of-time montages are beautifully subtle, ind his use of Notting Hill loca ural ions heightens the bohemian feel of the neighborhood a running createsits romantic glow The two have old-fashioned movie chemistry, and with Michell and Curtis mixing things just right, theeffect is magical street bazaar where you come to ieve anything, even true love, n happen ENS LYNG “Excellent performances EMILY WATSON laiel take placewithin layersof Thirteenth Floor” starts out with a promising concept aman who realizes he lives in only one of many levels of reality but the filmmakers don't know what todo with him. Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl, the great German character actor last seen in “The X Files”) has invented theultimate virtual-reality machine, a simula: tion of 1937 Los Angeles that exists in a computer chip. By lying on a friend's deathin this virtual play ground. The danger, however, is the machine is not finished and could warp Hall’s mind and kill him if he hangs out in this “fake” world too long. Meanwhile, a mysterious womanclaiming to be Fuller's daughter (rising star Gretchen Mol), comes to Hall after herfa: ther’s murderandsays she knows what is going on but won't tell ‘As Hall is transported to Los Angeles, the movietries to unfold spired twists and a bland, enddoesit get slightly interesting dience, begin to find out whatis PLEX ODEON} “Ghoanwar »ADWAY CENTRE eno 0 Canara otreaienioe wanes EPISODE|: SEEIT NOW IN THIS CENTURY! STAR WARS TICKETS AVALLABLE FOR ALL SHOWS! LET REE DO NGr eI A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS[)REAM 10:30 11.95:2 10-4 50) 725 0 reat % aiTAL 3) ovcira TAX 235-4 40)7 10.925 ota. TAX ; ane Clection = 400-4 4 PM a 42 9 30 ova. TAX THAT the Love mAWM M.. 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Only near the heer GTASee ES SRT Gretchen Mol plays a mystery womanin ‘The Thirteenth Floor real and what isn’t. But by then, we don't Part of the problem is Bierko walks through the story as a wanted man without a look of desperation or showing a worry line. And the movie doesn’t have the gee-whiz special effects of like a 1940s film noir, but it plods along with sluggish pacing, unin $440 Bargain Showsin() adulttena 1 ixelucive Engagement He believes his answer maylie in the computerized Los Angeles that Fullercreated, andhe decides to risk his life by “jacking” into the machine andinvestigatinghis radbedeat LOyy es)inerent mpace<oeesHm D(@r) ESNPV8 Oa eM 1:45 ~ 4:45 - 7:30 wore 10:00. y. at is showalternate worlds in the same place. It is also the most boring. at's too bad, because “The Fao, THE PHAN To HN fF STARTS Fay is found mur and Grant's knowledgeof celebrity fuel the wit »verdoes the musical interludes dat pad the film's two-hourrun- Instead of wife, Bella (Gina McKee); and the movie's scene-stealer Will's seruffy lodger Spike (Rhys Ifans, plices, dition and British swear words with the audien sending asteroids hurtling toward eyed (and recently paralyzed) erts and Grant as willing accom As he did in “Four Weddings id a Funeral,”” Curtis combines When Fuller dered, his partner, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), becomes a prime suspect. Theonly problemis, Hall cannot remember if he stabbed Fuller to death (Hugh Curtis has gathered what amounts to his own troupe of players, many from the British sitcoms he pro: duces: McInnerny starred on the Blackadder” series, while Cham: bers plays the resident ditz on “The Vicar of Dibley.” Michell and Curtis, with Rob: wh everything looks, sounds andfeels real THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE This year Hollywood is ob: sessed with playing head games Earth, it is making movies that from “Dancing at Lughn But the road to romance, al 15 complicated enough in mov- the “ust is trans: » this alternate world BY VINCE HORIUCHI andstuffed-sl brother Bernie Bonneville); Max's sad- by the way more like thelight show fer they probat language) benefits, as meets the owner,the disarm: harming Will Thacker 1) McInnerny), puts it, ser beams (which. The ThirteenthFloor Notting Hill” (rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong ayed by the disarmingly rming Hugh Grant). 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