LoginChip Alvarez
Character from "Marvel Comics Spider-Man: The Sinister Six" (1996) video game.
After starting out as a director of arty independents, Chip lvarez became a household name with his first big-budget Hollywood production, A Modicum of Blood, a re-casting of MacBeth wherein the trees of Walden Woods come to Thoreau's cabin. Stunned, his critics hailed again his gift for understatement as underscored in the sequel, A Smattering of Gore- a political thriller and, subsequently, a prequel, A Tad of Violence. His venture into baroque, intellectual sci-fi, A Crusader of Stars, cemented his reputation.
It was his fourth film, however—A Bureau of 13— that lifted Alvarez into the pantheon of auteurs. Some say the pressure of being his generation's Orson Wells gave him a big head, but his mother said, no, he was born with a large noggin. but those who work with him say Alvarez is a regular Joe, unaffected by the laurels cast at his feet.
The adulation, however, has reportedly driven him into reclusiveness. A man of artistic torture, searching, and solitude, he is reputed to be at work on what would be his testament to the cinematic arts, something new and different and his grandest achievement yet, a film version of A Bloody Bloodbath, the great British novel.
First, though, he's got to finish his current project, a film featuring the actress Mary Jane Watson-Parker. And people around him are saying the pressure of greatness is finally coming to bear: He just doesn't seem to be himself lately.
After starting out as a director of arty independents, Chip lvarez became a household name with his first big-budget Hollywood production, A Modicum of Blood, a re-casting of MacBeth wherein the trees of Walden Woods come to Thoreau's cabin. Stunned, his critics hailed again his gift for understatement as underscored in the sequel, A Smattering of Gore- a political thriller and, subsequently, a prequel, A Tad of Violence. His venture into baroque, intellectual sci-fi, A Crusader of Stars, cemented his reputation.
It was his fourth film, however—A Bureau of 13— that lifted Alvarez into the pantheon of auteurs. Some say the pressure of being his generation's Orson Wells gave him a big head, but his mother said, no, he was born with a large noggin. but those who work with him say Alvarez is a regular Joe, unaffected by the laurels cast at his feet.
The adulation, however, has reportedly driven him into reclusiveness. A man of artistic torture, searching, and solitude, he is reputed to be at work on what would be his testament to the cinematic arts, something new and different and his grandest achievement yet, a film version of A Bloody Bloodbath, the great British novel.
First, though, he's got to finish his current project, a film featuring the actress Mary Jane Watson-Parker. And people around him are saying the pressure of greatness is finally coming to bear: He just doesn't seem to be himself lately.
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