LAT. Fall preview.

For its fall preview package, the Los Angeles Times places its quip-riddled release schedule, compiled by Kevin Crust and Kinsey Lowe right up at the top. And Kevin Thomas has the schedule of foreign releases. The features and such trickle down from there:

Interview-slash-profiles:

• Choire Sicha with Gwyneth Paltrow (her fall movie: Proof).
• Rachel Abramowitz with Charlize Theron (North Country).
• Tina Daunt with Mark Ruffalo (Just Like Heaven).
• Elaine Dutka with Steve Martin (Shopgirl).
• Susan King with Jurnee Smollett (Roll Bounce), Charlie Ray (Little Manhattan), Maggie Grace (The Fog) and Julianne Moore (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio).

John Horn: "While scores of movies spend countless years in development hell, [Thomas] Bezucha's suffered an even crueler fate: repeated false starts." Then Diane Keaton salvaged The Family Stone.

Patrick Goldstein: "Though the book was initially considered untouchable for Hollywood, its tone too acerbic in the patriotic wake of 9/11, Jarhead has now been transformed into a film whose pedigree drips with Academy Award associations."

Gregory Katz learns from Tim Burton and his stop-motion animation crew on Corpse Bride the meaning of the word, "painstaking." But Nick Park and his crew on Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit already knew, as Chris Lee reports. Even so, "the lo-fi animation technique is experiencing something of a mini-renaissance."

Briefs:

• Martin Miller on Elizabethtown.
• Rachel Abramowitz on Capote.
• Richard Verrier on Chicken Little.
• Matea Gold on Paradise Now.
• Brian Triplett on Thumbsucker.
• Chris Lee on A History of Violence.
• Susan King on The Legend of Zorro.
• Maria Elena Fernandez on Serenity.

Posted by dwhudson at September 13, 2005 9:39 AM