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But be sure not to miss Endgame, the fantastically suspenseful movie that chronicles the bizarre circumstances that led to Mandela’s 1990 release from prison (available on DVD 2/9).
Endgame, from British director Pete Travis, centers on the unlikely gatherings that eventually brought South Africa from white minority rule to its first democratic elections, in 1994. The extraordinary situation involved a British businessman who risked his life and his career to broker a series of talks between the president of the African National Congress (superbly played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and, through an Afrikaner philosophy professor (William Hurt), the National Party. Though many shots feature the frustratingly common “shaky camera” style, the film is worth seeing for its standout performances, crisp dialogue and intimate perspective on an improbable moment in history.

It’s a salad of Tim Burton and Jean-Pierre Jeunet with a touch of Edward Gorey dressing.

It’s a story from Woody Allen’s dark, self-reflective comedy, “Deconstructing Harry.” Underrated in my book.

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Catherine Keener, who was nominated for an Oscar for her work in “Being John Malkovich” and who plays a divorced mother in “Where the Wild Things Are,” told me that her 10-year-old son, Clyde, once asked her why Jonze didn’t live with his parents; apparently Clyde didn’t realize that Jonze was an adult.

Interesting:

He hadn’t set out to make a children’s movie, he said, so much as to accurately depict childhood.

Something to write on your office wall:

“I realized only then that it happens millimeter by millimeter,” he told me. “If you compromise what you’re trying to do just a little bit, you’ll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you’re suddenly really far away from where you’re trying to go.”

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After about an hour, Malkovich asked Jonze if he was American. “I thought he was Czech,” Malkovich told me. “He had such a funny way of expressing himself. It sounded like he’d learned English as a second language.” Nevertheless, Malkovich said, Jonze was “funny and charming and strange, and he seemed to desperately want to do this film.”

Poignant:

To borrow a phrase that Sendak once used to describe his best-known creation, Max, Jonze inhabits a world in which one can “skip from fantasy to reality in the conviction that both exist.”

Link to the New York Times Magazine article