10 FILMS TO WATCH FOR DURING RELEASE-PACKED '98.Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Critic While experience has taught me not to get excited about any movie sight unseen, the following five titles are among the few 1998 releases I'll really be curious to see: Bulworth: Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter and director, known as Warren Beatty. Biography Early life and Education directs and stars in what sounds like a pretty dark political satire Political satire is a subgenre of general satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians, and public affairs. It has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political . The man has made smart political films before - ``The Parallax parallax (pâr`əlăks), any alteration in the relative apparent positions of objects produced by a shift in the position of the observer. In astronomy the term is used for several techniques for determining distance. View,'' ``Shampoo,'' ``Reds'' - and if ``Wag the Dog'' is any indication, big-time Hollywood social comedy may be back in vogue. (February) Eyes Wide Shut: If we don't see Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited erotic thriller by the end of the year, at least there's the consolation that its outlandishly long production schedule kept Tom Cruise away from a ``Mission: Impossible'' sequel. (December) The Kiss: If the casting of this offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. romantic comedy - Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito - doesn't intrigue you, the fact that it's directed by screenwriter extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra Richard LaGravenese (``The Fisher King,'' ``The Bridges of Madison County'') ought to. (November) The Spanish Prisoner: Perhaps the key talent for the aforementioned ``Wag the Dog'' was scripter David Mamet. The playwright's latest directing effort, about a complex business scam on a Caribbean island, is being hailed as his best ever. Steve Martin's sneaky performance is, reportedly, a revelation, too. (April 3) You Have Mail: It'll either be magical or appalling. Writer-director Nora Ephron and stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan worked wonders with ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' but since then Ephron's movies (``Mixed Nuts,'' ``Michael'') have been jaw-droppingly tasteless. Since this is an e-mail update of the great Ernst Lubitsch's most charming romance, ``The Shop Around the Corner,'' taste will mean everything. (December) CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) The Kiss: Danny Devito plays an elevator operator who falls in love with divorcee di·vor·cée n. A divorced woman. [French, feminine past participle of divorcer, to divorce, from Old French, from divorce, divorce; see divorce. Holly Hunter. (November) (2) A Bug's Life: From the animators who brought us ``Toy Story,'' the story of a misfit mis·fit n. 1. Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose. 2. One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others. ant. (Thanksgiving) (3) The Big Lebowski: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi take part in a game of mistaken identity. (March 6) (4) Thin Red Line: Woody Harrelson and Sean Penn mark Terrence Malick's return to directing. (Fall) |
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