He was a mentor, a storyteller, a fire-breather. He was more passionate than anyone we’ll likely come across again. Of course, you know this already. Because if you read his stuff, you know the man. Everything in his writing is everything he was in real flesh-and-blood life.
NEWS AND OPINION > STEVEN WELLS 1960-2009
By PW Staff
Colleagues of Steven Wells share their memories of the man.
By Sean Burns
Michael Bay has once again outdone himself and somehow made a movie that’s bigger, louder, longer, stupider and even more offensive than his godforsaken 2007 Transformers. I can’t imagine a more dispiriting, dehumanizing cinematic experience than this relentless fusillade of aggressive, incoherent images, macho posturing and schoolyard-bully humor. But then again, I tend to say the same thing every time I see a Michael Bay picture.
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Just because The Girl From Monaco’s got a serious filmmaker doesn’t mean it ain’t fluff. Anne Fontaine has previously been known for heavy, ponderous French dramas like Dry Cleaning, How I Killed My Father and Nathalie... You’d think her presence on this fizzy love triangle-cum-travelogue would demand a subversion of the genre. And though Monaco does prove slightly more inventive, the subversion is this: There is no subversion, or only slightly.
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