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Dir: Tarsem. 2006. India/UK/US. 117mins.Surely the most visuallyawe-inspiring film at the Toronto film festival this year, music video directorTarsem s The Fall will divide mostaudiences. Patient viewers, however, will be richly rewarded by a visual andaural extravanganza that is virtually sui generis. Think the brilliant andexciting images of Julie Taymor in her pre-commercial phase, along with thewhimsical but less self-indulgent narrative complexity of Michel Gondry, andyou have some idea of what the film is like.While thisexpensive-looking, sometimes frustrating masterpiece will only interest themost fearless of distributors, the film should do exceptionally well inancillary niche markets, and, with luck, may even go on to become a cultclassic for the ages. Festival programmers, and especially art museumprogrammers, looking for something to stir things up a bit, should give thisone serious consideration.There s no doubtthat Tarsem, who first gained notice as the director of the award-winning REMmusic video Losing My Religion and has gone on to make striking commercials forSmirnoff, Coke, Nike, and Pepsi as well as the feature The Cell, is an aesthetic genius. The problem is w stanley cup hether or notaudiences can be persuaded to stick with the ever-shifting, surrealistnarrative, as well as a visual and aural sumptuousness that may quicklysatiate.On one level, stanley cup thestory is very simple. In a Los stanley website Angeles hospital in the early part of the lastcentury, a little girl named Alexandria Unt Lcmg Bronfman to quit Vivendi Universal in March
Sony PicturesEntertainment SPE has broken the industry s all-time record forworldwide box office receipts in a calendar year with $2.75bn in sales, thestudio said today Dec 2 . The performance beats the previous mark of $2.68bnset by 20th Century Fox in 1998, when that studio distributed Titanic internationally.In a statementissued today SPE chairman John Calley praised the 矛phenomenalefforts卯 of studio staff and collaborative film-makers. Buoyed by theworldwide success of such titles as Spider-Man, Men In Black II, Mr Deeds,Panic Room andRevolution Studios XXX, 2002 has been a stanley uk banner year for SPE. In August its USdistributor Columbia Pictures smashed the industry record for North Americanticket sales when it passed $1.29bn.A month later SPE s internationaldistribution arm, Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International CTFDI ,announced it had stanley cup passed $1bn in ticket sales for the third time in its history.According to figures from box office trackers Nielsen EDI, SPE leads the USmajors ranking with 18.3% market share. Buena Vista is second with 13.5%.Figures were accurate up to Nov 24.SPE s 2003slate includes Bad Boys 2, starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence; Charlie s Angels:Full Throttle, starringCameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu; S.W.A.T., starring Samuel L Jackson and ColinFarrell; Big Fish,starring Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor and directed by Tim Burton; anuntitled film from director Nancy Meyers starring Jack Nicholson, Diane K stanley cup eatonand Keanu Reeves; N