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Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.
(Witness their ubiquitous, clever advertising on behalf of Trainspotting and The Crying Game .) They promote shamelessly, pioneering the practice of calling Academy Awards voters to sway their votes.
Trainspotting , the new movie about young Scottish junkies, provided another useful occasion for noting this alleged trend.
In your July 18 "Assessment" of the Weinstein brothers, you state that Miramax was "the driving force" between various independent movies, among them Clerks , Trainspotting , and Il Postino . The wording of your article suggests that Miramax partook in the creation of those movies, when in fact they were funded and filmed without Miramax's assistance, and then Miramax bought and distributed them.
Miramax has been the driving force behind some of the most acclaimed films of the last decade: sex, lies, and videotape ; The Piano ; Pulp Fiction ; Clerks ; Red ; Il Postino ; Trainspotting ; The English Patient ; and Good Will Hunting . It has won five Palmes d'Or (the Cannes Film Festival's top prize) and more than 100 Oscar nominations.
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