Show C4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday September 17 2002 SHERMANS LAGOON WATS ON m Toronto film fest offers fair but not great choices CAMP mm ram crhv TORONTO (AP) — Plenty of decent — but not great — movies were the rule at the 27th annual Toronto International' Film Festival which ends Saturday with audiences and critics finding the overall lineup a bit lackluster Some highlights from among 26S feature-lengt-h fesfilms that played during the 10-dtival: “Far From Heaven”: Another Academy Awards prospect fra Julianne Moore reuniting with writer-directTodd Haynes (“Safe”) who crafts a film that strikingly resembles the rich color and buried passion of Douglas Sirk’s 1950s family melodramas Dennis Quaid and in the story of a Dennis Haysbert co-st-ar -perfect that runs aground in the marriage racism and homophobia of the Eisenhower dccfldc ”8 Mile”: “Saturday Night Fever” for the hip-ho- p age Eminem brings an understated surprisingly affable presence to Curtis Hanson’s tale of a rising young rapper a rare screened at the festival With heart humor and great camaraderie among its cast of urban poets the high-enerfilm follows a talented kid from Detroit’s mean streets gradually emerging beyond his dreary upbringing and the friends of youth “Lost in La Mancha” : Even in failure Terry Gilliam produces an interesting film This documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe traces Gilliam’s collapsed “Don Quixote” fantasy shut down after six days of production because of flash floods and an ailing lead actor This is a rare glimpse at the fragility of collab- orative art and the doggedness of a quixotic filmmaker whose absurdist journey strangely parallels hi$ main character’s “The Guys" : Adapted from Anne Nelson’s play about a writer (Sigourney Weaver) with the anguishing task of helping a fire captain (Anthony LaPaglia) prepare eulogies for mew killed Sept 1 1 at the World Trade Cento' You might think our collective hurt has greatly healed in a year but it surges back watching these unlikely comrades in distress' Director Jim Simpson Weaver’s husband offers a moving reminder of lost heroes and those grieving ' them ay CATHY SHOPPINGr'S LATEST CIMLEM6E'- - I cwrr f FIND even A STORE or D THE RIGHT SIZE! picture- “work-in-progres- BEETLE BAILEY ' HAGAR THE HORRIBLE IF YOU FOR I NEED N0 WHERE ANYTH ARE I YOU HATE THOSE 0NE-VW0R- D &XNG? or s” m : “White Oleander”: Newcomer Alison Lohman holds ho own opposite Michelle Pfeiffer Renee Zellweger and Robin'Wright Penn in an adaptation of Janet Fitch's novel about a teen hurled into horrific foster homes after ho mother is jailed for murder A down- -' beat drama yet director Peter Kosminsky and Lohman playfully adapt the look and attitude of their heroine to ho successive situations and the ending offers a whiff of hope “Frida": Salma Hayek makes an impressive bid for Academy Awards consideration with a zestful performance as Mexican artist Frida Kahlo wife of Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina another potential Oscar con- : PEANUTS tender) Director Julie Taymor who oversaw the Broadway version of “The Lion King” approaches tier film biography with a painter’s eye creating a visual feast that nicely comple- ments Kahlo’s vibrant artistic style' “City Of God”: A blistering portrait of boys with guns Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles presents a frighteningly energetic glimpse of life among Rio de Janeiro youths caught up in gang violence and drug peddling Theilm spins parallel stories of boys who take opposite paths one reveling in power as Rio’s most merciless crime lord the other aspiring to a life of art and productivity as a photographer “Max": Portrait of the artist Hitler as a young man In 1918 Munich a Jewish art dealer (John Cusack) befriends aspiring painter Adolf Hitler1 (Noah Taylor) trying to impart joy and artistic devotion to the disillusioned war vet and counter the young man’s vile forWriter-directays into Menno Meyjes creates a passionate dialectic that's frightening to watch for the human flour- ishes the future dictator reflects ' “Flower & Garnet”: A starkly beautiful nar- rative of a lonely boy (Colin Roberts pos-- ( sessed of achingly mournful eyes) his older sister and mother figure (Jane McGregor) and their father (Callum Keith Rennie) an emotional ruin since his wife died in childbirth In ' his feature-fildebut Canadian director Keith Behrman caresses this unhappy trio and with melancholy humor and a few jolting twists eases them back toward a conception of family ' ' “Talk To Her”: Pedro Almodovar (“All About My Mother”) tells a tender tale of friendship between two men who are victims' of unrequited romance for a singular reason One loves a lady dancer in a coma the other loves a female bullfighter in a coma The men talk to their loves they talk to each other and Almodovar sketches a sad wryly funny render- -' ing of desire devotion intimacy and the utter lack of rules governing attraction “Auto Focus”: Director Paul Schrader (“Affliction”) examines the seamy side of the sitcom world with his portrait of “Hogan’s ' Heroes” star Bob Crane a sex addict murdered in a motel room in 1978 amid videos and photos of his carnal relations Greg Kinnear does a perversely chipper take on Crane while Willem Dafoe creepily as his home-pobuddy who was implicated but never convicted in the slaying Yes it's another horror “Bubba ”: about old fogey Elvis Presley (Bruce comedy Campbell) battling a bloodthirsty Egyptian' mummy in a seedy retirement home with help from a man who thinks he’s JFK (Ossie Davis) Director Don Coscarelli delivers a goofy giddy piece of camp that should live on in cult-vidsections as long as there’s still Elvis sightings Thank you Don Bruce and Ossie Thank you very much m co-sta- rs Ho-Tep- eo free-spirit- ed 'Barbershop’ clips competition ' LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movie-goe- rs might want to phone ahead for an appointment to get into “Barbershop”' The warmhearted ensemble comedy starring Ice Cube as reluctant proprietor of his late father's business debuted in first place at the box office with $21 million over the weekend according to studio estimates Sunday The year’s big sleeper hit “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” remained in the No 2 spot with $1 1 million pushing its total to $1 107 million and becoming the 15th movie of 2002 to cross the $100 million mark And in its first weekend of fairly wide release Robin Williams’ stalking thriller “One Hour Photo” came in third with $77 million The weekend’s other new wide release Jason Lee and Tom Green’s crime comedy “Stealing Harvard” premiered at No 4 with $63 million finishing slightly ahead of last weekend’s top film “Swimfan” which grossed $61 million Overall box office revenues rose for the first time in nearly two months The top 12 movies took in an estimated $72 million up 38 percent from the same weekend last year “Barbershop” played in 1605 theaters and averaged a whopping $13084 a cinema “If you make a good movie they’ll come” said Peter Adee head of marketing for “Bar MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM FOXTROT REAL LIFE ADVENTURES you Love TOOK TH 5r 9-1- Me so much you TH TMe TO kOLL DOWN WNDOW ON TH FkeeMJAY extr and BtY Me jnese fatty FLONCkS FkOAf SOMe STkANCe DfKTY GUY It's the lack SetLNC TMM A CUT thought that counts Toes 8 pm lion “One Hour Photo” averaged $6337 in 1212 theaters “Stealing Harvard” played in 2366 theaters and averaged a so-s- o $2663 Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters according to Exhibitor Relations Co Inc 1 “Barbershop” $21 million 2 “My Greek Wedding” $11 million 3 “One Hour Photo” $77 million r 4 “Stealing Harvard” $63 million 5 “Swimfan” $61 million 6 “Signs” $53 million 7 “City by the Sea” $48 million 8 “XXX” $33 million 9 “Spy Kids 2:” $24 million 10 “Austin Powers” $18 million Win fll bridge CLOSE TO HOME ohhoncy! z cant aeceve bershop” distributor MGM “1 think there’s a big audience but there that goes to good movies whether they’re ethnic or not Just look at ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding”’ “Greek Wedding" added 69 locations to reach its widest release yet at 1764 theaters and average $6254 an impressive figure considering it has been out for five months The romantic comedy starring its screenwriter Nia Yardalos and John Corbett cost just $5 million to make and could finish with a domestic gross of $150 million to $160 mil- Fi$t MovtwlY support &w? 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