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Red (voice of Anne Hathaway) and the other main characters are under
police investigation following a series of thefts in the woods. The basic story
of how the wolf (Patrick Warburton) winds up disguised as Granny (Glenn Close)
is retold from four wacky perspectives — a comic take on “Rashomon.”

The familiar characters get new twists — Red is a savvy kid who knows
karate, Granny is addicted to extreme sports, and the Woodsman (Jim Belushi) is
a dingbat who drives a schnitzel truck but is “really” an actor. Twitchy, a
chittering, manic squirrel voiced by co-director Cory Edwards, is by far the
most amusing figure, but has a small role. (Other characters are voiced by
Chazz Palminteri and David Ogden Stiers.)

As usual with these fairy-tale put-ons, there’s a barrage of wisecracks,
throwaway lines and anachronisms; some of the jokes are good, many are
predictable. The animation style seems a bit dated, and the so-so musical
numbers feel tacked on. Audiences used to Pixar- and DreamWorks-level animation
are likely to notice these shortcomings.

Sad to say, “Hoodwinked” seems little more than multiplex fodder.

– Advisory: Rated PG for some mild action and thematic elements.

– Walter Addiego

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‘Following Sean’

Documentary. Featuring Sean Farrell. Directed by Ralph Arlyck. (Not rated. 87
minutes. At the Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco, the Act 1 & 2 in Berkeley,
and the Smith
Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.)

At its exhilarating best, “Following Sean” is reminiscent of the lauded
British documentaries that began with “7 Up” and continued to follow a
cross-section of 7-year-olds into adulthood to see how they turned out. Only
one kid is featured in the new film. But Sean Farrell is such a charmer and his
upbringing so bizarre from a 21st century perspective that he hardly needs
company.

Sean is first seen as a precocious 4-year-old more than ready for his
close-up. Hippiedom is in full swing in the Haight-Ashbury, where the boy lives
in the same building as novice filmmaker Ralph Arlyck. Looking for a project
for a film class at San Francisco State, Arlyck turns his camera on his
guileless neighbor with the dancing eyes and Beatles mop. Sitting barefoot on
Arlyck’s couch, Sean casually talks about his preference for eating pot instead
of smoking it and how he can always spot speed freaks because they’re all skin
and bones. The short black-and-white film that results becomes a cause celebre
on the film festival circuit in the late 1960s, sharing a bill with François
Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” at Cannes.

Scenes from the short are interspersed throughout “Following Sean,” in
which Arlyck returns to San Francisco almost three decades later to see what
became of his own wild child. Unlike the “7 Up” series, in which its subjects
were interviewed at seven-year intervals, the documentary leaps from Sean as a
little boy to him fully grown with no footage of the intervening years. Sean
and his relatives — including the parents who presumably sanctioned his
marijuana use and allowed him to roam the Haight alone — fill in the gap
verbally. But listening to them talk about Sean’s evolution into a responsible
adult against all odds can never be as involving as watching it happen.

The bigger problem is that Arlyck has to figure out how to fill the screen
between Sean’s sporadic appearances. The director makes an unfortunate decision
to graft on his own story of how he wound up in the Haight, why he left and
what became of him. The film transmutes into “Following Ralph” as Arlyck
interviews his parents, his wife and family and slips in clips from his later
work. You get the sense it’s a pain to be anywhere in the vicinity of his
camera. Turning it on his adolescent son eating dinner while Arlyck is in the
midst of another documentary, the youngster asks quite reasonably, “What does
this have to do with a film about human rights?”

More to the point, what does it have to do with a film about Sean Farrell?
Fortunately, Sean turns up again in the nick of time to spark our interest.
He’s 31 and working steadily as an electrician in San Francisco. He’s even a
union member. Meanwhile, his father, who renounced the suburban life in Redwood
City to be a free spirit in the Haight, still can’t hold down a regular job and
lives in a trailer with no savings. Sean loves him, but can’t understand his
transient existence.

Arlyck quickly re-establishes his bond with Sean and gets him to open up
about his feelings. He’s as magnetic onscreen as he was at 4. The film
chronicles him throughout his 30s as he marries and has a son, who by the end
is the same age as his father when he was first captured on celluloid.

The unanswered question in “Following Sean” is why its subject isn’t
strung out in prison. Remembering back to the short film, Dad may have been a
positive influence when he appointed Sean his little helper building a boat in
which they were to sail around the world. That never happened. But by allowing
his son to handle tools at such a young age, did he give Sean the tools for his
eventual livelihood? Or are some kids just so resilient they can survive
anything?

– Ruthe Stein

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‘April’s Shower’

Romantic
comedy. Starring Maria Cina and Trish Doolan. Written and directed by Trish
Doolan. (98 minutes. At the Roxie Cinema.)

The phrase “lesbian comedy” is not exactly an oxymoron, but “April’s
Shower” is still a rarity, an expansive, talky and often zany romantic farce,
with lesbian characters at its center. It’s written and directed by Trish
Doolan, who for her feature debut also took the lead role, which she handles
with wit and assurance. The film has a pleasant spirit and lively dialogue, and
what’s more, seems to be coming from a specific cultural and geographical
location.

The entire film takes place over the course of a bridal shower, in and
around one house, and plays out almost in real time, and yet it conveys the
sense of a context outside its specific setting. The characters, gay and
straight, come from a distinctly Irish-Catholic world, in which everyone knows
the parish priest and most go to Sunday Mass. The house and its exteriors may
look like California (that might be a consequence of the budget), but the vibe
is East Coast, either New York or New Jersey.

Doolan plays Alex, a chef who is single-handedly preparing the food for
her friend April’s bridal shower. She is fraught and irritated, and not only
because she’s cooking but because she’s heartbroken: She lived with April
(Maria Cina) for five years, in a secret affair. None of their straight friends
or family knew they were lesbians.

In terms of story, Doolan does something impressive consistently: Every
time the audience gets to the point that it can guess what will ultimately
happen, she has it happen immediately. For example, anyone watching the movie
might expect the revelation of Alex and April’s affair to come at the end, but
no. Alex blows April’s cover early on. Though for brief moments, the movie
sometimes feels about to spin out of control into freneticism and repetitive
banter, there’s always something happening, always something to look forward
to, and a fair amount of surprises.

By shooting in one location, Doolan made it easy on herself. But by having
the movie take place entirely at a party, she gave herself the burden of having
to introduce and juggle about two dozen characters, all of whom she tries to
give their due. Some of the side stories are forced, including a tiresome bit
about a strange Scottish man (Euan MacDonald) stalking one of April’s friends.
(Typical of the movie’s benign spirit, it makes the mistake of trying to
present him as a lovable romantic.) Other subplots work quite well, for example
one about a lesbian painter (Honey Labrador) gradually coming to realize that
her relationship has hit a dead end.

The actors are either especially good (Doolan, Cina, Labrador) or do their
job. Nothing jars. It’s an admirable first feature.

Advisory: Ribald humor, sexual situations, partial nudity and strong
language.

– Mick LaSalle

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Palme is a puppet machine, built from a wood that acts like a brain, holding both emotion and memory. If he stays still in the sun for too long, Palme sprouts roots and soon becomes a tree. Quiet since the wife of his creator died, he only becomes lively, for unknown reasons, when a giant air fish wanders by. And Palme hasn’t spoken in years.

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But for all its beauty, Tree of Palme is nearly impossible to understand in one viewing, and with the introduction of too many supporting characters, the journey of Palme meanders and frustrates. From the moment that strange woman walks into Palme’s life, the movie begins jumping into too many settings, too many people’s lives.

People want to stop Palme, but we get only the barest of explanations for why. The woman who sets Palme off on his path plays a prominent part at various points, but her motives are just as murky. Sidekicks appear and disappear, taking our attention away from Palme with no real rewards in the way of character development. The leaders of the underground city are introduced, then forgotten in a series of explosions and mayhem. Even Palme, who’s pretty much a deaf-mute for the first half of this movie, doesn’t give us any reason to root for him until the end, and even then I’m not sure if I should care whether he reaches his destination, or takes root and becomes a shade tree.

Palme doesn’t even question his lot in life as a wooden puppet until the show is past its midway point. Quite suddenly, he decides he wants to be human, and the way he can realize this late-in-the-game dream feels contrived and forced. The soul searching should have started 45 minutes ago, buddy.

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But it just feels like Nakamura tried to include too much of what he originally planned for a TV series, before it was decided to make Tree of Palme a movie.

THE DVD

VIDEO

Despite a lot of grain at points, this DVD looks very good (16:9 letterbox presentation). I noticed nothing in the way of digital problems (though I didn’t even know what “videophile” meant until summer 2004). Great colors all around, though a good portion of this movie, mostly in the second half, is dark and murky. The character movements look fluid and night is deep and dark.

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Excellent use of separation in the 5.1 English and Japanese options. Lots of explosions and music shifts toward the rear channels in the second half of the movie, and using the back channels for just the smallest bit of dialogue, mostly during dreams, was a great move. The two language tracks are different: The English option is MUCH louder all around, while the Japanese track shifts dialogue around a lot more. Both sets of voice acting are solid, while the ambient noises and music are detailed and fitting.

ODD FEATURES

There are quite a few special features here, though they’re mostly repetitive. There are character, mechanical and prop sketches, story, character, mechanical and world art galleries, all set to different music. All scenes in the features change at an interval of a few seconds, which is much better than thumb-bashing the remote to move toward the next art piece.

The best special feature is the key sequence animations bit, with five, detailed early storyboard sequences, with Japanese audio tracks. They’re especially interesting for those interested in the early visual process.

An insert features a couple short interviews with Nakamura, several screen shots with explanations behind the art, and a history of the 2001 movie.

There are also six ADV previews, several Japanese promos and trailers, and DVD credits. Staff interviews or DVD production comments would have been a welcome addition to this DVD, but there’s enough here to keep the animation nuts busy.

SETTLED THOUGHTS

Mixed emotions abound. On animation quality, it’s easily Recommended, though it’s probably a Rent It if your anime tastes rest primarily on coherent plots, smart dialogue and people you can care about. Nakamura had a message he wanted to deliver in Tree of Palme, one examining the human psyche and our own impermanence, but it’s too easily lost among all the characters and settings. Rent or borrow it first, to see if it’s worthy of your collection.

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141 mins. · PG-13

16×9 · 2.35:1

Subtitles

English

Extras

Commentary Tracks, Featurettes, Trailers, Screen Tests, Silence Gallery, Work Notes

Starring

Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

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considering his I.Q. of 75 and "slow" manner - who would appear to get by as nothing more than the local metropolis idiot if not because the unshakable foot of faith his native (Sally Field) has in him, in his abilities, and in his God-accustomed right to the same schooling and opportunities as everybody under the sun else. But as fate (or is it destiny?) would make it, Forrest?s subsistence would be joke overflowing with opening and good fortune as evidenced into done with his becoming a college football hero, a decorated Vietnam veteran, a world Ping-Pong champion, and a millionaire businessman. Along the way, he has brushes with the likes of Elvis Presley, George Wallace, Abbie Hoffman, John Lennon, and three United States Presidents. Of course, the no greater than awareness that deeply moves and motivates Forrest through his life is that of his childhood sweetheart, Jenny (Robin Wright).
Though simple and innocent at his substance, Forrest serves as a "hub" in life all over whom events and lives be inclined to clique. With his wise fond of observations and untainted statements of the obvious, Forrest delivers simple answers and insight to the trials and tribulations of overcomplicated living. His girl, Jenny, single-minded to experience all the successes (and excesses) of this crowd, lives precariously on the edge, seeking fame as a folk singer, diving clever into the counter-enlightenment of the 60s, drifting wholly the superficiality of the 70s, finally hitting rock bottom related the dawn of the 80s.

Conceivably more incisive is Forrest?s meaning on his Vietnam commander, Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise), who seeks a different destiny: dying a war superstar like his forefathers. Yet, in the horror of brawl, Forrest boldly saves Lt. Dan against his commander?s wishes and remains enthusiastic to him as he copes with life as a cripple and in lasting conflict with society and with God. And while both Jenny and Lt. Dan feel cheated and betrayed in the lives they lead, both ultimately finish a go over back to Forrest, acknowledging his unfailing resolve and elementary wisdom that has somehow pulled them all through Hell and back.
I can?t say enough about the overwhelmingly touching and heartwarming aspects of "Forrest Gump." While I?m not typically taken in by ?the feeling good? movies - seeing how diverse yield to sappiness or speak to purely a limited segment of institute - this film is original. This is a e la mode film, well scripted, and magnificently delivered in pleasant, believable, and thoroughly rejuvenation style. And, from the practically unparalleled performances (Hanks and Sinise are simply brilliant) to the ridiculous production design and digital effects, it?s pygmy wonder the film scooped up six Academy Awards (including First Picture) as a replacement for its efforts.
In the same way as a book you can?t put down, "Forrest Gump: Special Collector?s Edition" offers so much to consider and skill. The cornerstone, of execution, is the film itself, which draws your attention and compels you to continue watching, eager to organize what might happen to Forrest next, which, in this context, is a boundless jurisdiction of plausibility. It is a rejuvenating fare well for the heart, mind, and warmth that, although presented over the stretch over of two-and-a-half hours, seems to move by quicker than you muscle wish. As for me, I watched it in a single sitting and, when it reached the end, I played it again . . . "for no specific convince a?tall."