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2000 Stories by Paul Malcolm

• Soft Center

  published December 21, 2000

  Right from its storybook opening -- the voice-over narration begins with “Once upon a time . . .” -- Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat aims... More >>

• Total Rehash

  published November 23, 2000

  In The 6th Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to Total Recall territory as an average, if hulking, Joe caught in a technological conspiracy... More >>

• Below the (Color) Line

  published October 26, 2000

  Illustration by Bill Smith Diversity is more than a by-the-numbers proposition, but when it comes to black employment in the motion-picture... More >>

• The True Believers

  published October 19, 2000

  Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, the husband-and-wife team behind Milestone Film & Video, will tell you that the movies they’re passionate abou... More >>

• Way of the Filmmaker

  published September 7, 2000

  ”For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away,“ says Christopher McQuarrie, the Academy Award--winni... More >>

• Hollow Promise

  published August 17, 2000

  One week before the opening of Sony Pictures’ Hollow Man, a couple of hundred entertainment reporters were given the chance to intervie... More >>

• Super-8 Man

  published August 10, 2000

  Deep beneath the trumpeting of the digital-cinema revolution, beneath the bone-shaking soundtracks pumped through the Dolby or THX systems of... More >>

• The Dreamlife of Foreign-Film Distributors

  published February 17, 2000

  New approaches, new audiences In the biggest Catch-22 in foreign-film distribution, if a film doesn‘t prove itself in New York, which ha... More >>

• To Niche or Not To Niche

  published February 10, 2000

  Mexican director Arturo Ripstein was just explaining how he and his filmmaking colleagues persevere in the omnipresent shadow of Hollywood,... More >>