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Jolie ducks questions from the reporters, who instead corner actor Tim Robbins and singer and Witness co-founder Peter Gabriel, among other high-profile guests. The event is covered by Entertainment Tonight, Extra and The Insider, TV shows that do not generally report on internecine bloodshed in sub-Saharan Africa when it is not connected to the woman who hooked up with her married co-star in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Jolie's notoriety is now a charitable asset. If you could place a dollar value on a broken marriage, Jennifer Aniston could claim a monster tax deduction...
...evidence seems disconcertingly simple. Someone is threatening Georges (the excellent Daniel Auteuil) and his nice family. To which Haneke says, Look closer. The Austrian director, now working in France, ranks as Europe?s most provocative film prankster. And his new work, which swept the European Film Awards (Best Picture, Actor, Director and Editing) this month, is both an exercise in motal suspense and an essay on the complicity between those who create disturbing images (moviemakers) and those who take pleasure from looking at them (us). Georges is not as blameless as he seems; his long-suppressed memories of an incident...
...cast veterans of 70s Hong Kong action pics, among them Yuen Qiu (who?s a hoot as the Alley?s bullying landlady), Chan?s boyhood schoolmate Yuen Wah (as the henpecked landlord) and Bruce Leung (as the mild-mannered ultimate warrior, the Beast). But though Chow the actor doesn?t take center stage until the second hour, Chow the auteur is fully in change. Behind the movie?s frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...work becoming a snob. Simon left his native Yugoslavia as a boy, exploring theater during grade school in England and the United States. He organized one play during a brief stint of “very undistinguished service” at an Air Force professional school, but lacked cooperative actors. “The ones around me wanted to do as little as possible,” he recalls. “In fact, to do nothing.”At college, Simon ran a dramatic group called the Harvard Radio Workshop, “a dramatic group that depended...
...veteran actor, techie, and theatergoer, Kastleman recognized the allure of directing late in high school, and refined her directing skills by working through several Harvard plays, which she describes as a “learn as you go process...