Paul Cullum

Museum Piece

Paul Cullum
Somewhere on the Sony lot, in an executive office suite, or so rumor has it, there is a production still, blown up to poster size, of Jennifer Connelly. She stands in a glittering ballroom gown atop a sweeping staircase on the set of Mulholland Falls, preparing to make an entrance......

Barnstorming

Paul Cullum
In the final pages of his New York Times best-seller Stupid White Men, liberal standard-bearer Michael Moore breaks cadence amid a reasoned defense of his qualified support for Ralph Nader in the 2000 election -- and a series of controversial last-minute e-mails that Democrats are still fuming over -- to......

The Hired Hand

Paul Cullum
Any survey of the recent Mexican film renaissance must include the latest effort from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, whose debut feature, Amores Perros, last year served notice in U.S. theaters that something new was burgeoning south of the border. The only thing is, his new film is an eight-minute car commercial......

The Hired Hand

Paul Cullum
Any survey of the recent Mexican film renaissance must include the latest effort from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, whose debut feature, Amores Perros, last year served notice in U.S. theaters that something new was burgeoning south of the border. The only thing is, his new film is an eight-minute car commercial......

The Accidental Witness

Paul Cullum
Brian Seifert, a 44-year-old computer specialist, has been indicted on suspicion of filing a false terrorist complaint in the days after September 11. Seifert told the FBI that a Middle Eastern man came into his computer-consulting business and gave him disks showing how to drive fuel tanker trucks into churches,......

Redux Deluxe

Paul Cullum
”Are my methods unsound?“ ”I don‘t see . . . any . . . method . . . at all, sir.“ If Apocalypse Now Redux -- perhaps the most anticipated film re-release of all time -- took 20 years to see the light of day, you’d never know it from......

Eyes Wide Open

Paul Cullum
”Bill . . . I’ve seen a few things in my life, but never anything like this.“ That‘s actor Todd Field as piano player Nick Nightingale in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 release, Eyes Wide Shut, warning a guileless Tom Cruise off the whole Long Island ”Fidelio“ scene. In the year between......

Load Warriors

Paul Cullum
Photos by Ted Soqui I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. --Rutger Hauer, in Blade Runner "LOOK AT THAT SHOT, YOU GUYS. YOU SEE THAT?" A girl in heroin shades and a bemused stupor is being physically lifted into the camera as a giant hand with a death's-head ring rakes......

Rambo Diplomacy

Paul Cullum
John Rambo, the brooding Vietnam vet and Green Beret warrior played by Sylvester Stallone in First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II, perfectly tapped into the impotent rage engendered by America‘s loss of the Vietnam War. By Rambo III (1988), his one-man army was off to aid the rebels......

In Character

Paul Cullum
Gram Parsons may get the credit for putting Joshua Tree on the hippie-era cultural map — the country-rock pioneer not only came here to decompress, he died of a drug overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn, in Room 8, which has all but become a shrine to him — but......