Other movie companies are attempting to repeat the low-cost, high-profit formula of films like " The Usual Suspects " or " Pulp Fiction " by using the cachet of respected independent directors to lure name stars into artier, less-expensive projects.
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He and his wife, Ilene, recently had friends to their new 6, 700-square-foot Bel Air home for a double bill of the action film " Drop Zone " and the artier British import, and Oscar possibility, " Tom and Viv ."
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Most of the artier films, though, are still coming out of Hollywood studios . " Sideways, " for example, comes from Fox Searchlight Pictures, run by Rupert Murdoch, hardly someone you'd consider a patron of independent films-- or independent thought of any kind among his employees.
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And the season's other midair action leviathan, " Air Force One, " was the work of Germany's Wolfgang Petersen, who long ago forsook artier homegrown fare like " Das Boot " for the Hollywood big time of " In the Line of Fire " and " Outbreak ."
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The oldest public square in Paris and one of the loveliest, Place des Vosges is also the green heart of the Marais Quarter : a flavorful Right Bank neighborhood between the Pompidou Center and Place de la Bastille that preserves something of the feeling of the later Middle Ages whilealso being one of the city's trendier _ and artier _ enclaves.
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They also cite a reaction against the artier attempts at comedy of recent years that did not deliver dependable laughs, and a simple spin of the apparently eternal cycle of television programming, this time back to what one executive called " just plain vanilla " comedy _ flavored with a dash more sexual content to satisfy more contemporary viewing tastes.
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Affleck chides Damon for his attraction to artier fare like " All the Pretty Horses " while expounding on the virtues of his own, post-" Good Will Hunting " ( for which the co-star pals won screenwriting Oscars ) strategy of mixing big, brainless movies such as " Armageddon " with more personal, creatively rewarding projects.
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But while the Cheekwood exhibition emphasized the content of Edmondson's work, grouping the sculptures by subject ( angels, animals and so on ), the New York version of the show takes an artier approach, accentuating Edmondson's stark modernity with a gray-on-gray display that echoes the look of Weston and Dahl-Wolfe's black-and-white photographs.
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And success has also allowed the 58-year-old producer to go in different directions, like backing smaller, artier projects such as last year's " Veronica Guerin . " In fact, his latest $ 100 million-plus film production is a gamble . " King Arthur " is a realistically revisionist and unexpectedly cerebral take on the well-known and much-filmed legend.
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Although it omits some crucial hits like " Judy Teen " and was released too early to include anything from the excellent " Love's a Prima Donna " album, " A Closer Work " remains a solid introduction to the career of an underrated but very worthwhile group from the artier side of glam rock . " Guarisco also highlighted " Make Me Smile " and " Mr Raffles " by labelling them the album's two AMG Pick tracks.
