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		<title>Ridley at 33</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 22:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ridley Scott is my favorite contemporary director. One of the few whose movies I will see by sheer virtue of his directorial involvement. His eye for photography is fantastic and his narrative pacing ebbs and flows like gentle surf. His education as a set designer has led him to create fantastic movies from the seed of production design. He has admitted as much on the DVD of Blade Runner. Whereas with some directors that could be an undoing, with Scott it has often enabled him to transcend the narrative. That&#8217;s not to say he doesn&#8217;t have his flaws. His later work has suffered from an uneasy fondness for turbulent and slow-shutter cinematography in his action sequences. From such a celebrated visual director this is nothing short of perplexing. Leave the viscera of shaky-cam to directors like Michael Bay who want merely to make the audience happy (or hide flaws in the CGI), or Paul Greengrass who thinks he&#8217;s making &#8220;You-Are-There&#8221; docu-drama every time he rolls camera. You&#8217;re better than that, Ridley. Still, even when he succumbs to this injudiciousness, he&#8217;s frequently delivered a world and a story worth visiting. His latest release, Robin Hood, marks the 33rd anniversary of Scott&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Who?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the interest of full disclosure, I immediately admit that I am a Ridley Scott apologist. He&#8217;s one of only two directors from whom I eagerly anticipate a new film (the other being the brilliant Paul Thomas Anderson). Additionally, this review is certain to contain numerous spoilers, so read at your peril. When I first heard Scott was attacking the Robin Hood legend, I was apprehensive. Then I heard his plan was to shift focus from the philanthropic felon to the beleaguered Sheriff of Nottingham, whom it has been reported was merely a tired cop doing a thankless job. This was not only a different spin on the legend itself but perfect material for someone of Scott&#8217;s caliber to tackle. Then reports surfaced of a proverbial troubled production. Outlaw Russell Crowe was to be joined by throaty Batman Christian Bale as the Sheriff, and the title was changed from Nottingham to the terribly original Robin Hood. Still, a Robin Hood in Scott&#8217;s hands could be fascinating if, as was reported then, the narrative would follow Kingdom of Heaven as a crusades-era story of unrest in England. Then the rumors got truly weird. Russell Crowe (or Christian Bale, it was unclear [...]]]></description>
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