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...cars for idiot laughter, stock cars of bloody revenge. Not often does a film truly transport viewers outside themselves--or deep inside. One such precious vehicle is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, which has shown its class and mass appeal by winning the top prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival and by becoming, in the first 25 days of its release, the all-time top box-office hit in its native Japan. Now this delectable treat from the world's most revered master of animation (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke) is ready to dazzle American audiences in dubbed...
...gave the piece to a friend, who passed it along to others until it landed in the hands of Stephanie Hunziger in Frankfurt, who's been my German agent ever since. She arranged for a production of it--in German--in West Berlin in 1959, on a double bill with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The reviews were favorable, word traveled to New York, and in January 1960 some people put it on in New York, where it ran for 311/42 years...
...That's why, Lewis and others argue, in the New Age bookstores and yoga centers from Berlin to Los Angeles where Barks' and other modernized versions of Rumi have found such an enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs...
...Chechen cause. If all goes well the film will premiere in Tbilisi in the fall. Vanessa Redgrave, the Oscar-winning actress and political activist, has said that she will try to attend. After that, Mazayev says hopefully, will come one of the big film festivals, perhaps in France or Berlin - places far removed, in every conceivable way, from the harsh, violent place that gave birth to this film...
...through a room where slow-motion footage shows soldiers in the Great War running from their trenches amid falling bombs. Beckmann spurned categories, and particularly rejected the Expressionist label. Yet his work after the war in many ways epitomizes that movement, centered in the creative and dissolute chaos of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Beckmann's drypoint sketches from the 1920s could be every bit as biting and cynical as those of the more overtly political George Grosz. But he had a magisterial distance few others could match. Included among the cabaret artists and chimneysweeps in his 1922 Berlin Voyage...