Word: angeli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
...measure the accomplishment of Sense and Sensibility simply by observing that it meets all these contradictory standards. It does so while presenting us with a vast range of richly developed, gorgeously played characters ("Can everyone in England act?" Thompson reports director Ang Lee asking after one particularly fruitful casting session) and moving them gracefully through time and a lot of very pretty spaces without ever losing its conviction, its concentration or our bedazzled attention...
...will be nominated for an Oscar," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "They also give the films' publicists a major tool in marketing the films." Other winners in the 61st annual Film Critics Circle awards went to Jennifer Jason Leigh who won best actress in the film "Georgia"; Ang Lee as best director for "Sense and Sensibility"; Kevin Spacey as best supporting actor in three films -- "Seven," "The Usual Suspects," "Swimming with Sharks" and "Outbreak." Mira Sorvino won best supporting actress for Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite...
...Last May he attended V-E day ceremonies with 50 other world leaders in Moscow and in July enjoyed a state visit to Germany. On such occasions he is an enthusiastic guest, smiling, shaking hands, chatting in one of his three foreign languages (Russian, Romanian and English), reciting T'ang-dynasty poetry and even quoting lines from the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
Because Chen's Temptress Moon, like Zhang's Triad, is set in Shanghai before the 1949 revolution, both directors can expect their new films to be seen in China. But what can these profligately gifted filmmakers do next? Perhaps emigrate to America, where they can join John Woo and Ang Lee in showing Hollywood how to blend film technique with personal fire. But to do so would be to renounce the people, problems and landscape they have devoted their careers to putting eloquently on film. Maybe they should move down to Hong Kong in 1997, and hope for the best...