Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, December 15, 2006


Granola sighs:

[Casablanca] feels as if it was made for the satisfaction of the audience while [THE NEW, IMPROVED CASABLANCA II] feels as if it was made for that of the director alone....In a recent interview Mr. Soderbergh said that he would have been happy with a career like that of Michael Curtiz, a workhorse who spent decades churning out entertainments like “Casablanca” for Warner Brothers. The idea that the extremely self-motivated Mr. Soderbergh might be satisfied with a career like Curtiz’s is rich nonsense. Curtiz had next to no say on the personnel who worked on “Casablanca.” By contrast, for [THE NEW, IMPROVED CASABLANCA II] Mr. Soderbergh persuaded the same studio, now owned by a media conglomerate for which movies represent only a thin slice of the pie chart, to cough up millions for what is essentially a pet art project. [Emphasis added]

Rich nonsense indeed, made richer by KING RICHARD. PLUS IT HAS A PC ENDING, as we'd have guessed.

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