James Mottram’s THE SUNDANCE KIDS in THE GUARDIAN
May 20th, 2006 by Andre Soares
In The Guardian, Chris Petit reviews James Mottram’s book The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood:
"James Mottram quotes Robert Evans, producer of Chinatown and The Godfather, saying that movies are no longer made for their ideas and their sole concern is with their marketable elements. One result of this is an obsession with speeding up the telling of the story. Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, ostensibly about nothing much happening, is terrified of boring the viewer by being too empty or slow. While blockbusters taking millions are dismissed as the product of hype, the success of a small film like Lost in Translation ($44.9m in the US) is taken as an indication of artistic value, when a cold viewing reveals something successfully sold beyond its worth because it has the necessary marketing angles."
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