By Andrew P. Napolitano
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"The Great Gatsby” is the Hope Diamond of American cinema — priceless, enviable, impossibly tacky and bad, bad luck. Many filmmakers have stepped up to the challenge of capturing its quintessentially American story of self-invention, and just about all have whiffed memorably and expensively. Australian director Baz Luhrmann has broken the curse.
A film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat classic "On the Road" will be in the Cannes Film Festival, whose lineup this year has a strong American slant.
American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in the 2012 line up announced Thursday.
American movies are taking center stage at the Cannes Film Festival, with a fistful of U.S. films and stars, including Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, in the 2012 line up announced Thursday.
American filmmakers dominate the lineup of this year's Venice Film Festival, where George Clooney and four others will be competing for the Golden Lion, while Madonna, Al Pacino and Steven Soderbergh will premiere their latest directorial efforts.
The annual Folklife Festival, held on the Mall, is high-quality cultural tourism. This year's vistas are both homey and foreign: rhythm and blues and the featured nation of Colombia.
Speaking in his office above the Broadway theaters where he performed as a child, director Sidney Lumet was typically unpretentious in discussing his films, a body of work numbering more American classics than most have a right to contemplate.
Speaking in his office above the Broadway theaters where he performed as a child, director Sidney Lumet was typically unpretentious in discussing his films, a body of work numbering more American classics than most have a right to contemplate.
