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Moulin Rouge, Dec. 18 ($22.49) This is the perfect chance to get inside Baz Lurhman’s head. His dizzying post-modern pastiche presents so many cultural allusions and pop-culture homages, that to comprehend them all requires multiple sittings. Now, Lurhman offers two audio commentaries to encompass the full scope of his sumptuous vision, and the second disc allows the viewer to manipulate multiple-camera angle views of the dance sequences...
...Like Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, also set in Montmartre, this is a film about people who are either uplifted by love or twisted by its lack and one where the director has so much to say and show that he can't keep his images still. You could get drunk, or ill, on the high dose of whimsy in Amelie. That's fine--too many European movies suffer from emotional constipation and camera anomie. Jeunet travels the road of excess, telling dozens of peripheral tales, cueing American tunes from the '40s to play in a '90s Paris cafe, working...
...vowed to repair relations after years of neglect by Clinton. The administration had been insisting that there are strict limits on what it can do as long as the parties themselves fail to bring about a cease-fire, but it received a dire warning last week from Osama El Baz, national security adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. El Baz, on a visit to Washington, warned that Israelis and Palestinians "have proved themselves incapable of moving by themselves towards peace," and that their continued conflict threatened to unleash extremist forces that posed an imminent threat to U.S. allies...
...fifth of a square mile that is Balata, it is not venerated old families like the Masris who rule. The graffiti on the walls mark the territories of clan-based gangs like the Dan-Dan, or personal militias who owe their allegiance to local leaders with nicknames like Baz-Baz. Among the 30,000 residents of the camp, 65% of workers are unemployed, up from 25% before the Aqsa intifadeh kicked off eight months ago. It is estimated that there are 5,000 guns in the camp...
...opening night of the 54th Cannes Film Festival, can-can dancers kicked up a storm of publicity for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. Two evenings later, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Michelle Yeoh hosted a drinking contest, and after downing a dozen or more shots of heady Chinese liquor, the lithe lady was clearly the winner. The next night, a galaxy of Hong Kong stars, including Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Jet Li, flashed their smiles at the most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career...