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New On DVD - Bee Season, Brokeback Mountain, The Chronicles Of Narnia
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• Bee Season - Richard Gere as a rough-boy sailor in An Officer and a Gentleman? OK. Richard Gere as a singing and dancing attorney in Chicago? Convincing enough. Richard Gere as a Jewish husband (of Juliette Binoche) and father exploring the mysteries of God through the flawless spelling of his daughter? Oy. Many parts of this existential drama about the ways in which a brilliant 11-year-old (Flora Cross) affects her family are sketchy, as no one of the characters is well-drawn enough for us to care about them too much. Genius was captured far better in films like Little Man Tate and Searching For Bobby Fischer.
Beck goes crazy; also, will score Nacho Libre
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It's official: Beck has lost his damn mind. Based on
the abundant evidence of a single feature, he has elevated Napoleon
Dynamite director Jared Hess into the film stratosphere
alongside none other than Federico
Fellini. Seriously. That really happened. Talking to a stunned Rolling Stone reporter, Beck dropped the
following bomb: "No filmmaker since Fellini has had such an eye for amazing characters [as Hess]." Um, wow.
Read that carefully, now: I realize he's not comparing Hess' visual style to that of Fellini, but still - in Beck's
personal world of great characters, there are only two masters, and one of the is Jared Hess. Man, if Wong Kar Wai knew who Beck was, he would totally come kick his ass, and
Michelangelo
Antonioni might just tie him to a chair and force him to watch The Passenger over and over again.Sadly for those two, the lack of Beck love means that he'll never, ever score one of their films. Since his first ever foray into movie scores will be for Hess' Nacho Libre, he clearly has very high standards for such things - if Fellini were alive, he'd be the only other man with a shot. In addition to scoring Hess' film, Beck will also contribute songs to the soundtrack (though it's unclear if they'll be new recordings); the movie hits theaters June 2.
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