Show 10 Standard-Examine- Friday April 19 2002 r Swinton a master of nuance gesture “Deep End” star cquld have been a for Oscar shoo-i- n By GLENN LOVELL Knight Ridder Newspapers As Video drives you off The Deep End’ Standard-Examin- and wire services Capsule reviews by Standard-movie critic Steve Salles of new releases on video: fortunes after learnTHE DEEP END 12 versehishis is having an afwife ing (R) Language violence and boss His simple with fair her sexual content A mother tries to cover for her gay son after plan becomes complicated with death and deceit Howevthe mysterious death of his er the movie’s pace goes into older lover Living on the slow motion - a strange thing shores of Lake Tahoe the to happen in a Coen brothers’ mother fearing her son had film Individual performances do to with the something were interesting the film’s man’s death takes the body look was nostalgic but the finand dumps it in a shallow ished product was eventually cove A pair of blackmailers boring Billy Bob Thornton who discover an explicit vidand James Gandolfini star eotape of the dead man and 116 minutes the young man try to extort money from this fiercely proBLACK KNIGHT (PG-1tective mother A riveting Language and sexual conpredicament movie with extent There’s no doubt Martin ceptional acting in a gorgeous Lawrence is the star of this setting Tilda Swinton stars comedy be99 minutes cause he’s the only one who THE MAN WHO WASN’T gets to do anything He has to 112 (R) Language y THERE Enggo back to sexual content and violence A land to discover his true low-ke- y worth I’m guessing Lawrence barber tries to re- Examiner 3) 14th-centur- seed crushed 1 to 3 small dried red chili peppers crushed 2 generous pinches of sea salt Roasted Almonds With Coriander Chili and Olive Oil 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 12 cups blanched whole almonds 1 teaspoon whole coriander In medium skillet heat oil over low heat Add almonds toast about 5 minutes or until golden brown shaking pan often for more even color Sprinkle crushed coriander and chili peppers over almonds add sea salt Toss to combine serve hot on large plate had to take over for an inadequate script which started with a fun premise but offered nothing to back it up Martin does his best but the film needed a lot more than it delivers 93 minutes TEXAS RANGERS 12 (PG-13- ) Western violence Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”) leads a ragtag bunch of ranchers to protect Texas from bandits south of the border He saddles up the Rangers after the Civil War to bring law and order back to the Lone Star State If this were historically accurate the real Texas Rangers would have to be embarrassed as they are portrayed as d but bumbling buffoons on horseback The unflattering depictions and the lifeless story would explain why the release of this movie was delayed for two years 100 minutes Release dates subject to change Not all videos available at all stores good-hearte- Makes 6 (14-cu- p) servings Almond Board of California Want to share a snack recipe? Send written copy to FLIX & SNAX Standard-Examin332 S Ward Ave PO Box 12790 Ogden UT 84412-279- 0 9 fax to er 625-429- or vzimmerfffstan-dardn- et Please include your name your town of residence and your daytime phone number in case we need to contact you a number of our greats Spencer have noted the key to acting is to “never let ’em catch you at it” Tilda Swinton learned this lesson early on when she was making “Orlando” and a number of Derek Jarman costume dramas It has served her well over the years: The statuesque Scottish actress has become a master of nuance and gesture her opaque face and green eyes not the spoken word are windows onto her characters’ souls This is certainly true of Swinton’s Lake Tahoe mother Margaret Hall in “The Deep End” which arrives on DVD this week Had the film-nothriller a hit on the festival circuit been seen by more Academy members Swinton would have been a shoo-i- n for an Oscar nomination Her Margaret tough and resourceful is the prototypical survivor who compares favorably with say Barbara Stanwyck and Sissy Spacek at their most low-budg- et ir determined “I see big stage performances being a real distraction in cinema” Swinton 41 says on the phone from Glasgow where’s she’s preparing for “Young Adam” an erotic thriller set on a barge “My personal predilection is a kind of allergy to seeing visible acting I don’t find it very respectful to the audience because the audience doesn’t really want to go and see actors They want to go and see people and people don’t flounce about and make faces” Swinton’s unusual looks and height (she’s have made her a favorite of such filmmakers as Danny Boyle (she was the tribal leader in “Beach”) Cameron Crowe (guardian to the Here- - after in “Vanilla Sky”) and Spike Jonze (a ruthless studio executive in the upcoming e Kaufman satire “Adaptation”) At once ethereal and androgynous Swinton is quite unlike any actress now working in movJonze-Charli- ies According to the “Deep End” audio commentary San Francisco filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee cast the actress as their desperate mother because she’s “endlessly fascinating to She can project watch that inner working of the mind Watching her is like watching somebody think” Swinton says she was drawn to “Deep End” (updated from a 1949 Max Ophuls thriller) because the story was so visual and internal “It’s largely a silent film” she notes referring to a lengthy stretch where her character disposes of a body in the freezing lake “It’s structured around the nature and psyche of one individual in a very and classical way like one of those F Scott Fitzgerald character-as-actio- n things “I think people really long to see that and they particularly long to see that kind of portrait played out by wom- en” Swinton resides with her husband and two children in Scotland north of Inverness Instead of vying for the Cameron Diaz-Juli- a Roberts roles she’s drawn to odd little projects that are more “spiritually lucrative” and does walk-on- s in movies like “Vanilla Sky” “I know it looks like a mad patchwork” she says of her career “But that’s the method in the madness My ' choices are always the choices of the people making the films and the conversations that we have I haven’t a clue why some Hollywood directors ask for me It’s a slight anomaly They’re asking me to contribute these little surgical strikes Sometimes I feel like a mascot for them to be honest” |