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It's almost impossible to guess where the next narrative innovations will come from: The thing about surprises is, they tend to surprise you. But we're marking our moviegoing calendars as follows:
-- BLACK AND WHITE James Toback follows his Two Girls and a Guy with an almost-all-improvised effort about white kids and hip-hop culture -- starring everyone from Wu-Tang Clan members to Brooke Shields. (March)
-- ERIN BROCKOVICH It sounds like a traditional David vs. Goliath flick about a single mom (Julia Roberts) who takes on utility companies, but after the ultra-stylish, narrative-bending joys that were Out of Sight and The Limey, we're dying to see what director Steven Soderbergh has up his sleeve. (March 17)
-- REQUIEM FOR A DREAM Involving Brooklyn junkies and shot partially on digital video, Darren Aronofsky's [Pi] follow-up promises to be twisted and groundbreaking and bizarre.... Just the way we like it. (Summer)
-- O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? The Coen brothers (Fargo) helm this 1930s period jailbreak flick starring George Clooney. And there are musical numbers. Need we say more? (October)
-- AMERICAN PSYCHO Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) tweaks the gruesome 1991 Bret Easton Ellis serial-killer novel -- adding a feminist spin. (April 7)
-- TIME CODE 2000 Leaving Las Vegas director Mike Figgis' latest will be an entirely improvised ensemble thriller bankrolled by Sony.
-- MAGNOLIA After 1997's electric Boogie Nights, director Paul Thomas Anderson delivers an Altmanesque epic intertwining the lives of a guru (Tom Cruise), a cop (John C. Reilly), a salesman (William H. Macy), a dying father (Jason Robards) and other denizens of the San Fernando Valley. (Dec. 17)
