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...using them, hurrah hurrah, to produce reviews. He's covered mainstream movies like Shrek the Third and Bug, and artier fare on the order of Guy Maddin's Brand Upon the Brain and Hal Hartley's Fay Grim. Today he has a review of A Mighty Heart. It's a phrase that certainly applies to Roger, and Chaz too, for their year-long battle against his debilitating illness. With open arms ready to embrace a trusted friend - which Roger has been to Mary C. and me for three decades, and is to any reader or viewer of his work...
...movies endlessly and graphically depicted the moment people die. There was simply more human drama to be found in the spectacle of two folks sporting in bed than of a guy shooting or carving another guy up. And as art-house auteurs were getting pornier, porn directors were getting artier. They brought hard-core to nearly every genre, from science fiction (Flesh Gordon, with FX by Jim Danforth and Dennis Muren) to Bergmanesque melodrama (Devil in Miss Jones). There was even a porno musical, the lavish Alice in Wonderland...
...Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a show of pictures?each made in a wink?which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by France's most distinguished documentary photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Unlike artier cameramen, Cartier-Bresson has never felt the need of a studio or a darkroom. He still reloads his Leica under the bed, washes his prints in the bathtub. 'Shooting a picture,' says he, 'is like shooting rabbit or partridge. Before shooting you think, you contemplate, you look, look, look, look...
...generalize a bit?and what are critics in Cannes for, other than to see dozens of movies and lap up the free vittles??the artier directors from Europe and the Americas are so sick of current affairs that they want to blow everything up. The Asians on the other hand, who have lived with catastrophe for so long it's like a noisy neighbor, see each day as a little test that must be passed to get to tomorrow. (It's the difference between two views of North Korea: the Bush Administration's and South Korea...
...year a special 10-film section was devoted to South Korea's flourishing film industry. A few cinematic Seoul-mates were disappointed that the list did not include Korea's megahit romantic comedy My Sassy Girl. But the copious selection nonetheless offered a fair overview of the country's artier auteurs?from Lee Chang Dong's long-fuse, then combustive Oasis (it won the Best Director prize at this month's Venice Film Festival) to Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat, which, while it does not live up to its beguiling title, paints a quirky fresco...