C4 TheSalt Lake Tribune ENTERTAINMENT Book Critics Announce Finalists BYHILLEL ITALIE THEASSOCIATEDPRESS NEW YORK — The author himself maynotbe that popular in certain circles, but acclaim for Jonathan en's Corrections continues. Franzen’s novel about an unhappy Franzenjoins a stronglist of fiction finalists. Besides The Corrections, nominees include Sebald’s Austerlitz, Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, Colson White- Midwestern family is a finalist head’s celebrated John Henry Days, and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, thelatest collection from the revered short story writer Among other nominations announced Mondayare a poetry collection by 90-year-old Franzen helped bring back in print,isa finalist for her memoir, Borrowed Finery, Other for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Nobellaureate Czeslaw Milosz, essays by Martin Amis and a novel by W.G. Sebald, a highly regarded German writer who was killed in a car crashlate last year. Two of 2001's most notable biographies, David McCullough’s John Adams and Edmund Morris’ Theodore Rex, were notcited. Franzen is already a Na- tional Book Award winner. The critics’ nomination reinforces the author's place in what he calls “the high-art literary tradition,” and should help The Corrections outlast the notori ety from his falling out with Oprah Winfrey. Thetalk-show host chose his novel in September for her book club but canceled the traditional author dinnerafter he madea series of Alice Munro. Paula Fox, whose books Against Cliche, was published by Talk Miramax Books, the sister company to Tina Brown's now-defunct Talk magazine. Nominees for general nonfiction include Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand’sbestseller about the famous race horse; Sam Roberts’ TheBrother; Nina Bernstein's The Lost Children of Wilder; and Double Fold, by Nicholson Baker. Also cited was Neighbors, by Polish emigre historian Jan Gross. Right-wing groups have Thebookcritics circle has a disputed Gross’ account of a 1941 massacre in which as many as 1,600 Jews were burned alive, saying that the Nazis were responsible. But the author's book reinforced the increasingly heldbee that Poles were to blami Besides Milos,“nominated for A Treatise on Poetry, poetry finalists are: Albert Goldbarth, Saving Lives; Louise Glueck, history of favoring outsiders, The Seven Ages; Jane ae nominees include Barry Werth’s The Scarlet Professor, Adam Sisman's Boswell’s Presumptuous Task, David Had- ju’s Positively Fourth Street and Milking the Moon, by Eugene Walter, as told to Katherine Walter, an award- winning writer and translator, died in 1998. butnineofthe 25 finalists this year were published by Random House Inc., the largest trade publisher in the United States. A lifetime achievement schfield, Given Sugar, Gi Salt; and Bob Hicok, ‘Animal Soul. _ Amis is a finalist in the crit- award is being given to Ran- dom House editor Jason Epstein, whose authors include Norman Mailer and EL. Doctorow. Amis’ book, The War The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit organization of bookeditors andcritics. Thursday,January 31, 2002 This Wolf Is an Overstuffed Beast The Brotherhood of the Wolf xk An overstuffed French souffle of horror, sex and martial arts. W@W Rated R for strong violence and gore, and sexuality/nudity; in French with subtitles; 142 minutes. Nowplaying at the Century Cinemas 16, South Salt Lake City. blood brother Mani (American action star Mark Dacas=n discover foreboding signs that the Beast is not reina wolf, but something larger and more hideous — and controlled by a human master. Fronsac must deal with duplicitous noblemen, notably Jean-Francois de Morangias (VincentCassel), the son otthe local count. Fronsac also courts Jean-Francois’ lovely BYSEAN P. MEANS THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE A box-office hit in its native France, “The Brother- hood of the Wolf”is a mutt of movie genres — an odd and neverwholly satisfactory mix of period costume drama, martial-arts extraganza, su- pernatural thriller, sex-filled romance and conspiracy potboiler. In 1765, something is killing women and children in the French countryside. King Louis XV sendshis court gar- sister Marianne (played by Emilie Dequenne, the star of “Rosetta”), though he finds himself drawn sexually to the mysterious courte- san Sylvia (“Malena” star Monica Bellucci) — who has a hidden agenda all her own. Director/co-writer Christophe Gans gives everybody a wonder the thing spills over into 2 hours and 22 minutes of by Philip Kwok (who worked on the James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” and an Woo's “Hard Boiled”) imaginatively staged, though shot and edited too choppily to allow the graceful moves to show through. The blood and guts get little rough, and the Beast effects (by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop).are revealed too soon to keep the suspense going tothe finale. eM cia eS dener andresident scientist, Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), to investigate. Fronsac and his Iroquois disparaging remarks. The wrath of Winfrey apparently did not hurt Franzen commercially, and may have helped. Sales for The Corrections are nearing the 1 million mark,an enormous numberfor literary fiction and especially large for an author whose previous novelsold less than 20,000 copies. SHOW Hous Tairke Mecham’s coneemporaryop Span‘opm Saturday: 10.am-8 p.m. “cabbies Cowboys and the Tree short plays by Utah writers, Salt Lake Acting Company,168 W. North; 7:30 p.m; $24.50 to $30.50; $10 students. with” ID; 363SLAC or “Schonberger Skis the Stage” Egyptian Theatre Company Steiner Egyptian ‘Theatre, 328. §. 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