But the other genius thing is that he shoots the first half of the movie from the perspective of Jean-Do.
One of the first releases from the new feature film wing of CBS, the movie starred Harrison Ford as a crusty doctor trying to help Brendan Fraser's sick kids.
As it moves onto 1, 000 screens across the U.S. this weekend from 650, "Life" becomes the first foreign-language movie to hit that mark, easily passing the previous record holder, "Il Postino, " which played on roughly 400 screens.
Almost 30 years ago, the Consumer Electronics Association fought and won a similar battle to preserve the first-sale doctrine from legislation that would have choked off the market for movie rental and would have impeded the development of innovative devices.
Within the last two years alone, she ranked first among members of Congress in raising money from the television, movie and music industries combined.
The actor Tony Goldwyn, directing his first movie, and working from a fine screenplay by Pamela Gray, beautifully captures a moment in which the straitened moral world of the lower-middle-class Jewish characters is beginning to open up with necessarily painful results.
It is the second movie from director JC Chandor, whose first feature Margin Call (2011) was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
But Peter Kafka at All Things Digital tweeted this morning that it took 90 seconds to access the movie via his phone, from first click to stream.
By comparison, the first half of this 1997 movie suffers from abstraction.
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But the new movie Captain America: The First Avenger, from Marvel and Paramount, is looking like it might struggle for an audience.
By quickly, I mean from the very first scene, which wittily undercuts the portentous opening music and sets up the movie's first puzzle: how do the casually smug, cynical lab-coated technicians played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins relate to the five bright, sexy college kids we see taking off for a cousin's countryside retreat?
The movie came from a studio not known for its animated films, Universal, and it was the first film from tiny Illumination Entertainment production company.
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