'The Spirit,' 'Seven Pounds' and 'Revolutionary Road': A Taxonomy of Trash [Rants]
Though Hollywood reserves the holiday movie season for its annual harvest of ambition, prestige and clout, even the most painstaking Oscar husbandry can often fail. For three much-anticipated films in particular, the damage varies.So Bad it's Good:The Spirit (Dec. 25). Perhaps it's best to know as little as possible going into this adaptation of Will Eisner's classic 1940s comic series, written and directed by Eisner acolyte Frank Miller in the arresting visual style of his debut (with Robert Rodriguez) Sin

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Drama about a couple's tense marriage in the 1950s. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. Director: Sam Mendes. (1:59). R: Language, sexuality. At area theaters. As a whole, Sam Mendes' film of "Revolutionary Road" comes close but falls short of capturing Richard Yates' terrific novel. Yet in pieces and in spirit, the many honest parts of this drama about marital life in the 1950s are like the rooms of a house that feel right, even if the exterior slopes somewhat clumsily. Yates' 1961 book di

HONOR ROLL '08 | Plumbing the Depths of "Revolutionary Road": Sam Mendes on Adapting Yates, Working With Winslet, and the Pressures of Awards Season
indieWIRE: HONOR ROLL '08 | Plumbing the Depths of "Revolutionary Road": Sam Mendes on Adapting Yates, Working With Winslet, and the Pressures of Awards Season