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Arts
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At The Movies
Chinese And A Movie
A guide to the best new films that will be showing
in area theaters during the upcoming holiday season.
DAVID ELLIOTT
Copley News Service
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he movie industry just loves
stuffing the holidays, some-
times with turkey. We've
tried to avoid the turkeys
and narrowed the abundance of new
films to a few that ought to reward
serious interest, and provide distrac-
tion from current events. With
Chanukah coming to a close and
Christmas Day around the corner,
here are the top picks of the sea-
son's new releases.
ly). Peter Jackson directed effects, crit-
ters, Ian McKellen, in over three hours
of fantasy. Rated PG-13.
• The Devil's Backbone (Opens Dec.
21): Guillermo Del Toro, director of
the brilliant vampire film Cronos,
offers a vision of childhood fears as an
orphan confronts the Spanish Civil
War, and a mysterious force. Starring
Federico Luppi of Cronos, Marisa
Paredes of Life Is Beautiful and
Eduardo Noriega. Rated R.
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• Ocean's Eleven (Opened Dec.
7): It was the liveliest Rat Pack
movie of them all, but the enter-
taming 1960 "classic" has been
given a more serious heist hipness
by director Steven Soderbergh and
writer Ted Griffin. Knocking off
Vegas casinos, while escorted by
the ghosts of Frankie, Dean &
Co., are George Clooney, Brad
Pitt, Don Cheadle, Julia Roberts,
Matt Damon, plus a cameo by
old Pack dish Angie Dickinson.
Carl Reiner (Saul Bloom) and
Elliot Gould (Reuben Tishkoff)
play the Jewish members of
Ocean's team of casino-heist spe-
cialists. Rated PG-13.
• Vanilla Sky (Opens Dec. 14):
Any film starring Tom Cruise,
Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz
and Kurt Russell had better have
sensual fireworks. Cameron Crowe
(Almost Famous) directed and wrote,
freely adapting from the Spanish film
of romantic obsession Open Your Eyes,
which became a personal fixation of
Cruise's. So, during filming, did Cruz.
Rating R.
• The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship
of the Ring (Opens Dec. 19): Elijah
Wood is Frodo, boy hero of the
Tolkien classic that won the magic and
mystery sweepstakes long before
Rowling did. This is the first in a trilo-
gy shot concurrently (and optimistical-
David Elliott is the film critic for
Copley News Service. Gail Zimmerman
contributed to this article.
• Ali (Opens Dec. 25): The 1960s had
three great American heroes: John F.
Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and
Cassius Clay, who became Muhammad
Ali. Still with us, if not as before, Ali is
saluted in Michael Mann's big film,
with Will Smith muscled up to return
the master to his prime period of fist
and lip. With Jon Voight (as Howard
Cosell) and Jada Pinkert Smith. Mann
co-wrote the script with Eric Roth,
with whom he also collaborated on
The Insider. Rating TBD.
• A Beautifid Mind (Opens Dec. 25):
Russell Crowe may draw more acclaim
for his role as John Forbes Nash Jr., a
schizoid math genius pressed into CIA
code work in Ron Howard's film. Crowe