Shorts, 5/9.

Pride And Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical. No joke. Stuck in the rumor mill for months, now that Miramax is in, it's definitely happening. The all-singing, all-dancing Jane Austen classic comes to the screen at last. Director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) tells NOW, "It's so naughty. It's going up the ass of post-colonialism and coming back out again. We start shooting in July." With Aishwariya Rai and Martin Henderson, no less.

Nick Poppy's overview of the docs screening in Tribeca in indieWIRE kicks off with one helluva lead. No quotes, just go read it.

Sean Nelson talks to Neil LaBute and Paul Rudd, reviews their new movie, The Shape of Things and launches a new column, all in this week's Stranger.

Five questions Rebecca Bundy, Anime News Network's Ms. Answerman, hopes you never, ever ask again.

"What in the world happened to Eddie Murphy's career?" asks Manohla Dargis in the LA Times. As for Daddy Day Care, "I laughed a couple of times, but mostly I was bored out of my mind and not a little depressed." But Movie City News's David Poland thinks it's "likely to be Murphy's new top opener."

A brief review of Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History.

The Guardian is jam-packed today. Xan Brooks talks to Cédric Klapisch: "I'm French, Danish, English, Spanish. I'm not one but all. I'm like Europe. I'm a real mess." Maddy Costa meets Maggie Gyllenhaal. Luke Harding reports on In the Name of Buddha, "an epic, disturbing account of the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka" that's infuriating the government as it attempts to negotiate with the Tamil Tigers. And Peter Lennon is granted an "audience with one of the great divas of continental cinema," Claudia Cardinale:

The problem with film stars who have the kind of back catalogue Claudia Cardinale can muster is, if you are not firm, that they will devour the time with an unstoppable Oscar-night recitation of names of charming and wonderful people they have worked with. I let her get away with Visconti, Fellini, Mauro Bolognini, Sergio Leone, Abel Gance and Richard Brooks; Lancaster, Fonda, Robards, Delon, Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman - but stopped her before she got to Lelouch, Connery and Duke Wayne.

The Guardian also provides today's online viewing tip. Seven of them, actually. "The best of May's web shorts."



Posted by dwhudson at May 9, 2003 10:51 AM