For his first English-language feature, Michael Haneke has chosen to remake his own dismaying and disorienting movie from 1997.

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In fact, in the 1997 movie, Good Will Hunting, Will was compared to Ramanujan by his professor.

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By comparison, the first half of this 1997 movie suffers from abstraction.

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Thanks to the success of the 1997 movie, an unfortunate number of people now think of the sinking of the Titanic primarily as the setting for a romance.

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In previews for the 1997 TV movie, Houston's Fairy Godmother and pop singer Brandy's title character were much hyped, but the Rob Marshall-directed production itself was stolen by old pros Bernadette Peters as the stepmother, Victor Garber and Whoopee Goldberg as the King and Queen, and Jason Alexander as a kind of singing, dancing, pratfalling George Costanza.

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But in 1997, this is a movie that matters.

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So we note with great satisfaction that Jackie Chan, who made his literary debut with a charming autobiographical essay in TIME's 1997 special issue on Hong Kong, has found fame in the movie business.

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