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Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons released in the Criterion Collection on February 13th, 2024.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Criterion Collection has compiled and released another collection of romantic classics. I already owned the beautifully packaged set of Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, and Rohmer’s quartet of films exploring the ups and downs of friendship and romance makes for a perfect companion piece. It’s wonderfully packaged with cover art that accurately captures the simplicity and beauty of the films themselves. With a price-tag of roughly $125, you’re getting each of these films, newly restored, four around thirty-one-dollars a piece.

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Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons: A Tale of Springtime

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With films set in France and spanning the 1990’s, Eric Rohmer’s Tales of Four Seasons encompasses four different stories of love,...

Director, screenwriter, literary theorist and author of poetry and philosophy texts Dmitry Mamuliya graduated from Tbilisi State University’s Faculty of Philosophy and went on to study Directing in Moscow. He is the author of the films Moscow (short), Another Sky – which marked his debut feature – and The Criminal Man.

On the occasion of “The Criminal Man” screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival, we speak with him about the inspiration behind the film and Giorgi, the unnoticeable people of the world, becoming a criminal, and many other topics.

What was the inspiration behind The Criminal Man and how did you create the character of Giorgi?

I was interested in genealogy of a crime, how a person steps into the darkness, into the night, how their soul gets sick and starts a feud with the world around. I suddenly discovered that all that is happening to this sick soul has visual nature.

Notes from Hollywoodland: Rose’s Heady, Meaningful Tolstoy Update

“It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up,” realizes the titular protagonist of Leo Tolstoy’s famed novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Considered a masterpiece of Russian literature and published in 1886, director Bernard Rose takes the text and transposes it to the turn of the following century in Hollywood with his 2000 film Ivans xtc., an undertaking that sounds tedious but actually makes for quite an apt and inspired adaptation. One hardly needs to be readily familiar with Tolstoy’s novella to appreciate or understand what the film is ultimately up to, but doing so provides an alternative subtext in approaching what Rose is doing—specifically that one of humankind’s most enduring tragedies is to embrace the superficialities of existence instead of building a meaningful life, just as as Tolstoy’s character...

Bernard Rose's fourth film adaptation of a Leo Tolstoy work has found a distributor in the United States. "2 Jacks" -- starring Sienna Miller and Danny Huston -- has been picked up for release by Breaking Glass Pictures for a fourth quarter of 2013 release. Negotiations began at the Cannes Film Festival for the modern drama based on Tolstoy's short story, "The Two Hussars." Rose previously directed "The Kreutzer Sonata," "Ivansxtc," and a 1997 version of "Anna Karenina" — all based on Tolstoy novels and all featuring the acting talents of Danny Huston. His latest adaptation tells a two-part story of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters. Danny Huston plays Jack Hussar, a film director who returns to Los Angeles hoping to raise money for his next film. Along the way, he meets Diana (Sienna Miller) and woos her. The second part of the film picks up years later when Jack Hussar Jr.

Ape & Essence: Rose’s Latest Another Profound Tolstoy Exercise

Like Branagh’s penchant for bringing Shakespeare to celluloid, British director Bernard Rose has steadily amassed a collection of Tolstoy’s works for several adaptations. His latest, Boxing Day, would seem to cap a quadrilogy of films based on the literary icon’s works all starring Danny Huston (and don’t forget, before Joe Wright’s version last year, Rose had the most recent Anna Karenina with the 1997 Sophie Marceau topliner). This latest, based on Tolstoy’s story “Master and Man,” has been updated to reflect an economic crisis inspired road movie, with capitalism, class issues and Christmas infecting the toxic mix. For the most part, the rather blandly observed scenario is kept sharply afloat by the two lead performers playing broken, beat down bastards.

Pretentious and pompous Basil (Danny Huston) flies from Los Angeles to Denver, leaving behind his wife...

Transplanted Brit writer-director Bernard Rose and Hollywood scion Danny Huston have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship. Casting Huston in "Ivansxtc," a little-seen 2002 success d'estime that in many ways presaged the indie digital age, jump-started the would-be director's career as an actor. Huston keeps coming back for more, because with Rose he winds up doing his best acting. (Trailer below.) So far the two men have collaborated on four unfettered, unsupervised collaborations of micro-budget Leo Tolstoy adaptations, updated to modern La. "Ivansxtc" was the first ("The Death of Ivan Ilitch"), followed by relationship drama "The Kreutzer Sonata," about a wealthy man who falls for a concert pianist, and the upcoming "Boxing Day" ("Master and Man"), produced by Luc Roeg’s Independent and the BFI, which world premiered in Venice last year in advance of a UK late December opening. The well-reviewed film, which seeks U.S. distribution, will make its North American debut on.

To celebrate this week’s release of Bernard Rose’s Boxing Day on DVD, we have 3 copies of the DVD to give away to our readers.

Based on Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy, Boxing Day follows Ivans Xtc and The Kreutzer Sonata as the third film in a loose trilogy of modern day interpretations of Tolstoy stories.

A businessman named Basil and his chauffeur, Nick, drive in to the heart of the Rocky mountains in the midst of perilous weather conditions. When the journey becomes potentially fatal, Basil must decide whether he’s prepared to sacrifice his own life for the life of another.

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Fifteen years ago the British director Bernard Rose made a deeply disappointing version of Anna Karenina in Russia. As if to make up for this he's spent much of this century in the States making low-budget movies transposing shorter Tolstoy works to present-day California. The first was ivans xtc, an acrid tale of Hollywood based on The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the second part of The Kreutzer Sonata that centres on a pathologically jealous Beverly Hills philanthropist suspecting his wife of adultery. The third is Boxing Day, a version of Master and Man, the story of Vasily, a pompous, penny-pinching smalltown landowner, who sets out right after the December St Nicholas Day festival to buy some cut-price timber from a neighbouring landowner, taking with him Nikita, a heavy-drinking peasant with a troubled marriage. They get lost in a snowstorm and Vasily discovers how much less significant social hierarchies and money are compared to human relationships.

★★★★☆ Danny Huston taking the lead role in a Bernard Rose adaptation of a Leo Tolstoy novel has become something of a familiarity, following on previous projects Ivansxtc (2000) and The Kreutzer Sonata (2008). The pair reunite once more for Boxing Day (2012), based on Tolstoy's Master and Man, as we follow a ruthless proprietor named Basil (Huston) who, alongside his chauffeur Nick (Matthew Jacobs), travels through a blizzard to purchase property. Basil is a conceited property owner, and one who is always looking for a hard bargain, so much so that he ditches his family and ventures out on Boxing Day to search for a cheap woodland estate.

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His Ivansxtc was a searing indictment of Hollywood. Now Bernard Rose has adapted another Tolstoy story – and turned it into an indictment of capitalist America

Ten years ago, Bernard Rose proclaimed that digital technology would change the face of movie-making, and he made a film to prove it. Ivansxtc, released in 2000, wasn't just a calling card for digital cinema: it was also Rose's goodbye card to the industry that had previously shackled him – a scathing critique of Hollywood rendered in a new, raw aesthetic.

Ivansxtc chronicled the final days of a Hollywood agent, played by Danny Huston and based on Rose's real-life agent, Jay Moloney, a cocaine-addicted golden boy who killed himself in 1999, aged 35. Faced with death, Huston consoles himself with drugs and prostitutes, while his colleagues treat his impending exit as an inconvenience and an opportunity. The film is a glorious mix of sleaze and grace, a tragedy and...

Everything from Ang Lee's hotly anticipated adaptation of Life of Pi to Peter Jackson's epic take on Tolkien's The Hobbit

Life of Pi

Yann Martel's Life of Pi was one of the most commercially successful novels ever to win the Booker prize; now it has been turned into a keenly anticipated movie by Ang Lee. Pi Patel is the son of a zookeeper who decides to transport the family, and their entire menagerie, to Canada by sea. But a shipwreck leaves him and assorted animals on a single lifeboat, fighting for survival. Early film festival sightings have been hugely enthusiastic. 20 December.

Boxing Day

An intriguing and cerebral work from Bernard Rose, the maker of Mr Nice. This is the third of his Tolstoy adaptations, following Ivans xtc and The Kreutzer Sonata, all starring Danny (son of John) Huston. The source is the 1895 story Master and Man, and it...

By setting much of Tolstoy's masterpiece inside a theatre, Joe Wright both dazzles and distances the viewer

Tom Stoppard, a fluent and sensitive adaptor, has made a distinguished job of carving a workable screenplay from Tolstoy's 950-page novel, and Joe Wright has found a distinctive way of bringing it to the screen with Keira Knightley as Anna, Jude Law as her middle-aged, cuckolded husband, Karenin, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as her dashing lover, Count Vronsky. The last serious attempt to film Anna Karenina was by Bernard Rose in 1997, a lumbering work shot largely on Russian locations in the style of Dr Zhivago, with Sophie Marceau hopelessly inadequate as Anna, James Fox inexpressive as Karenin and Sean Bean virile in a rather unaristocratic way as Vronsky.

Having felt with some justification that he hadn't done justice to this towering masterpiece, Rose subsequently set about making innovative, low-budget versions of lesser Tolstoy fictions.

Bernard Rose updates Tolstoy's mysterious tale Master and Man and delivers a shrewd and intimate slow-burner

Here is the latest movie in Bernard Rose's fascinating, ongoing Tolstoy project – sharply intelligent, ingenious and insightful modern-day adaptations of Tolstoy stories, featuring Danny Huston in the leading role. The Death of Ivan Ilych became Ivansxtc in 2000, with Ivan as a hubristic Hollywood agent; The Kreutzer Sonata came out in 2008, a portrait of a toxic marriage in contemporary California. (Rose directed a more straightforwardly conventional Anna Karenina in 1997.) Now Rose has tackled Tolstoy's mysterious and resonant tale Master and Man, from 1895, about a rapacious landowner who journeys to a remote town in a terrible blizzard to purchase a woodland at a bargain price, taking with him a humbly loyal peasant, and ignoring the dangerous weather.

The tale has been turned by Rose into a shrewd and cerebral picture, an intimate slow-burner which does...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 2, 2012

Price: DVD $44.98, Blu-ray $54.99

Studio: Anchor Bay

Jeffrey Dean Morgan loves Olga Kurylenko in Magic City.

The Starz Original drama television series Magic City: Season One is set in the dangerous and decadent but undeniably desirable Miami Beach of yesteryear.

Magic City kicks off in 1959 at Miami’s luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel where hotelier Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, The Losers) is conjuring up ways to finance his dream. He has essentially sold his soul to the devil by taking on a partner who’s got the cash to make the Miramar the playground that it is: mob boss Ben “The Butcher” Diamond (Danny Huston, The Kreutzer Sonata). Ike’s wife Vera (Olga Kurylenko, Centurion), a former showgirl, and his three children think he is an honorable man, but he just can’t break his pact with the most notorious criminal in town. So Ike...

Reviewer: James van Maanen

Ratings (out of five): ***

The Kreutzer Sonata, directed and co-written (with Lisa Enos) by Bernard Rose tracks the journey of a jealous husband's relationship with his pianist wife. A modern adaptation of a Tolstoy novella, the film has a number of good things to warrant a recommendation. The movie leaves all credit information, save its title, to the end, a fact I was grateful for when I finished considering the quality of the director's previous works (Paperhouse, Candyman, Immortal Beloved and Anna Karenina). Yet, it is my second favorite of his films I've seen so far (his most recent work, Mr. Nice with Rhys Ifans, is even better). ...

DVD Release Date: May 8, 2012

Price: DVD $29.99

Studio: Zeitgeist

Danny Huston stars in The Kreutzer Sonata.

The 2008 British psychological drama film The Kreutzer Sonata is based on the classic 1889 novella by Leo Tolstoy.

In the film, Edgar Hudson (Danny Huston, The Warrior’s Way) and concert pianist Abby (Elisabeth Röhm, TV’s Heroes) become romantically involved and ultimately have a child together, though it was not something that was planned. As the years begin to pass by, Edgar grows in wealth and becomes a man who has everything, including a gorgeous wife and two beautiful children. But the significant changes in Abby’s life have made being a pianist, her true passion, a distant memory, causing her to descend into a period marked by restlessness and a lack of fulfillment.

Directed by Bernard Rose (Mr. Nice), The Kreutzer Sonata also features a supporting turn by Angelica Huston (The Big Year) as...

Bernard Rose joins the guru stable, bringing with him the trailer to Pasolini’s The Decameron.

Nine 14th-century scatological stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron form the basis of the first entry in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Trilogy of Life”, followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights. Trailers from Hell welcomes filmmaker Bernard Rose to its guru ranks with his thoughts about this typically eye catching Alberto Grimaldi production, complete with Morricone score.

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First off, a big welcome to our newest guru, Bernard Rose, who was one of the pioneering music video directors in the early days of MTV shooting “Relax” for Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and “Red Red Wine” for UB40. Rose’s feature credits as writer and director include

Paperhouse Candyman Immortal Beloved Anna Karenina Ivans Xtc The Kreutzer Sonata Mr Nice and, most recently, Two Jacks.

So, yeah, there’s that.

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Elisabeth Röhm, best known for her role as Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order, has a busy 2011 ahead of her.

The actress, 37, can be seen on the big screen in the upcoming films Chlorine, Transit and Abduction, as spokesmom for Juno Baby, and can be found online on Facebook and @ElisabethRohm on Twitter.

In her latest blog, Röhm discusses her and fiancé Ron Anthony‘s hopes that their 3-year-old daughter Easton August will develop a passion for a discipline — but doesn’t want to push too hard.

I was thinking last night about a particular incident that happened...

This week on Film Weekly, Jason Solomons meets Bernard Rose to discuss Howard Marks and the screen adaptation of his memoir Mr Nice. The British director talks about the thematic links in his films, from horror flick Candyman to lo-fi collaborations with Danny Huston, Ivansxtc and The Kreutzer Sonata.

Jason also talks to Tim Hetherington, winner of the 2007 World Press Photography prize for his images of Us soldiers in Afghanistan. Hetherington has turned his work with Vanity Fair colleague, writer Sebastian Junger into a compelling documentary, Restrepo, about a year with one platoon in the most dangerous valley in Afghanistan.

Xan Brooks pops in to review some of this week's other releases, including the return of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Zac Efron in The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud and bonkers Belgian animation A Town Called Panic.

Jason SolomonsXan BrooksJason Phipps...

Jason Solomons on Sarah Jessica Parker's latest big-screen role, Mr Nice director Bernard Rose's fascination with drugs, and an unexpected outburst at the Screen International awards

Carrie becomes Kate

Sarah Jessica Parker has seen off Nicole Kidman to land the big-screen role of Kate Reddy, heroine of Allison Pearson's 2002 novel I Don't Know How She Does It. Sj, as she always tells me to call her, will be playing Kate as an American because the action has been entirely transposed from the book's London setting to Manhattan. I'm told Sj was handed the role after the book's fans responded negatively to rumours that Kidman was in line to play over-stretched working mum, Kate. The film is being overseen by producer Harvey Weinstein and directed by Douglas McGrath, the urbane director who co-wrote Bullets Over Broadway with Woody Allen and most recently made the "o for the lead?...

Rhys Ifans was born to play drug trafficker Howard Marks in this amusing if hardly trustworthy biopic, writes Peter Bradshaw

In repose, Rhys Ifans's face seems naturally to settle into a half-smile of insinuation: a "you-know-you-want-me" leer. It's probably entirely appropriate for his latest role – and really, no other casting was possible. He plays Howard Marks, the Oxford-educated Welshman who, chaotically and bizarrely, stumbled into the game of importing hashish from Pakistan to the UK in the early 70s, back in the days when this lucrative and unexplored market was still open to gentleman amateurs.

The movie is based on the tall tales in Marks's 1996 memoir Mr Nice. That title, taken from an alias he once assumed, cheerfully invites us to take seriously the idea that he is, indeed, Mr Nice, that the drugs he was importing were the nice, soft, hippyish ones – distinct from harder substances – and that...

Sci-fi gives birth to its very own Smurfs in James Cameron's ponderous epic

What is there left to be said about Avatar? Its record-breaking box-office success has surely vindicated writer-director James Cameron's creative arrogance, making him the auteur of not one but two of the most financially successful movies of all time. As a piece of spectacular cinema entertainment, it undeniably has the "wow" factor, with interludes of impressively verdant digital landscaping giving way to moments of genuinely jaw-dropping sci-fi action. There's plenty here that you simply won't have seen before – most notably an impressively fluid interaction between the real and virtual worlds that rivals Peter Jackson's work in Middle-earth. Nor is the film lacking in bald subtextual substance, with its tail of thuggish humans merrily ploughing down interstellar tree-huggers in the pursuit of "Unobtanium" being variously read as a parable of American imperialism, European colonialism, or...

Mad Men: Seasons 1, 2 & 3

DVD & Blu-ray, Lionsgate

In the TV world, advertising always used to be one of those high-pressure jobs that husbands in old soaps and sitcoms toiled at in the background; Mad Men reverses that dynamic by putting the job at centre stage and having an ad agency be the location where the characters truly come to life. Set in the 1960s, creator Matthew Weiner's show draws heavily from real products and events of the decade, making his characters either slightly ahead or behind the times; the only person who seems truly plugged into the "now" is central figure Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the agency's creative director, who, as the show progresses, is revealed to be as much of a construct as anything in the ad world; he's the very definition of a self-made man. But it's such a great ensemble piece – the push-and-pull friction between colleagues...

Tolstoy's controversial novel of pathological jealousy is shifted to present-day Hollywood with no obvious merit

Rose made a so-so version of Anna Karenina a few years back as well as a biopic about the composer of The Kreutzer Sonata, and he brings Tolstoy and Beethoven together in this version of the former's controversial novel of pathological jealousy, which circulated in what we'd now call a samizdat version as a result of tsarist censorship. Shifted from late 19th-century Russia to present-day Hollywood, it's the second of a low-budget trilogy of Tolstoy stories set in California and starring Danny Huston. In this case he plays a rich philanthropist convinced his beautiful wife, a former pianist, is having an affair with a handsome Japanese-American violinist. It's consistently and coldly erotic, and omits Tolstoy's cranky ideas on marriage and sexual abstinence without putting anything comparable in their place. It is, I'm afraid, inferior to...

Green Zone (15)

(Paul Greengrass, 2010, Us/Fra/Spa/UK) Matt Damon, Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Khalid Abdalla, Amy Ryan. 115 mins

Hoping to graft his shakycam Bourne aesthetic on to real-world politics, Greengrass wades into the Iraq fray and pulls no punches. Damon plays an honest grunt whose search for Saddam's WMDs turns into a rogue quest for the truth about dodgy Us dealings. Except this isn't the truth – it's a fictionalised version of the real events, which creates some problems. The convincing chaos of post-invasion Iraq is steadily compromised by the action plot mechanics, stranding the pic in no man's land. Still, Greengrass gets to exorcise his demons, as well as exercise his Damon.

Shutter Island (15)

(Martin Scorsese, 2010, Us) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams. 138 mins

Scorsese tackles this convoluted mystery in the manner befitting a Big Director: with a bloated running time, and an overheated visual style and...

Danny Huston stars in another intelligent film transposing Tolstoy to La. By Peter Bradshaw

British-born director Bernard Rose, known as a horror specialist for his 1992 shocker Candyman, is showing some stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy. After a conventional account of Anna Karenina, Rose brought off a brilliant version of The Death Of Ivan Ilych in 2000; set in modern Hollywood, and entitled Ivansxtc, it starred Danny Huston as Ivan, the agent and Tinseltown power-player, confronting the awful truth about his approaching death. Now Rose has adapted Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, again starring Huston, again set in contemporary Los Angeles. The result is bold, brilliant and exhilarating: an intimately horrible, sexually explicit and black-comic portrait of a toxic marriage that is closer to the spirit of the original than any number of costume dramas. It is not merely a study of jealousy and obsession, but a profoundly pessimistic...

This week's podcast meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Aka Swedish actor Noomi Rapace, talks La and Tolstoy with Danny Huston, and reviews Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Paul Greengrass's Green Zone.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish author Stieg Larsson's literary sensation about a crack computer hacker who teams up with a disgraced journalist to solve a 40-year-old murder, has sold over 1m books in the UK alone. Now the film is set to make a star of Noomi Rapace, who plays its sultry, charismatic title character. The actor tells Jason Solomons about transforming herself physically for the role (Thai boxing came in handy) and discusses the new wave of Swedish films breaking out in the wake of Let the Right One In.

Xan Brooks then joins in to run the rule over the week's big releases: the pacy-despite-its-length Girl With the Dragon Tattoo...

Part of a film dynasty, he's unforgettable on screen, but has never had an acting lesson. Is it all in the genes for John's late-flowering son, asks John Patterson

If you don't already know whose son Danny Huston is, the fastest way to figure it out is to close your eyes and listen to him speak. The words waft towards you on a breathy cloud, lent colour and character by a ­detectable lifelong smoking habit (no emphysema like the Old Man had, though, not yet). In a faded American accent that sounds as if it's been ­acquired or borrowed or even half-forgotten in ­exile. All inflected with an Irishman's love of words-as-song and a bullshitter's ­devotion to the art of speech. Every so often a story – and they're all well-told, like dad's were – will resolve itself into a generous, wheezy burst of laughter that's like an ­invitation to intimacy and friendship.

Law & Order star Elisabeth Rohm's fiance is refusing to see the actress' new film - because he has no interest in watching her strip for another man.

The new mum bares all in scenes opposite Danny Huston in their new movie The Kreutzer Sonata - and her partner, entrepreneur Ron Wooster, doesn't want to see his fiancee naked onscreen.

She tells Life & Style magazine, "He's chosen not to see the film, and he really doesn't intend to. He doesn't need those visuals in his head."

And Rohm admits she too had reservations about stripping for her first nude scenes: "I've played a lot of lawyers, cops and FBI agents... It really wasn't part of the job description to shake off the uniform and let it all hang out.

"But, for this movie, the nudity was an essential part of the storytelling."...

More Sundance coverage

Expanding its VOD offerings, IFC Films is partnering with the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival to present five movies on IFC Festival Direct simultaneous with their appearance at the March film festival.

Joe Swanberg's "Alexander the Last," which is having its world premiere at SXSW, will be the first film to have a fest premiere the same time it becomes available on-demand.

In addition to "Alexander," produced by Swanberg, Noah Baumbach and Anish Savjani, the other SXSW titles bound for Festival Direct are Javor Gardev's "Zift" and Matthew Newton's "Three Blind Mice" as well as two films that played SXSW last year and are set for encore screenings this year: Barry Jenkins' "Medicine for Melancholy" and Joe Maggio's "Paper Covers Rock."

IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring unveiled several other initiatives Monday at the Sundance Film Festival.

They included several new...

By Stephen Saito

Usually when an actor or filmmaker reveals who inspired them in their creation of a character, it's the type of politically correct answer sure to offend no one. Johnny Depp had no problem explaining how he channeled Keith Richards for his role as Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Dustin Hoffman sent up his pal, producer Robert Evans, in "Wag the Dog." But in a business where backbiting is common and screenwriters are urged to "write what you know," it's been a longstanding tradition to say the cruelest things about others under the guise of art. In a summer that will have Tom Cruise applying his considerable cackle to a Sumner Redstone surrogate in "Tropic Thunder" and a manscaping-derelict Bruce Willis doing his meanest Alec Baldwin impression in the adaptation of producer Art Linson's Hollywood tell-all, "What Just Happened?", we thought it was high time...