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...Rowling The Harry Potter author is on her way to becoming a club of one as this world's first billionaire author. While the otherworldly book series has been a pretty little earner for the British scribe - 100 million copies sold worldwide - the celluloid version has Harry's Nimbus 2000 broom and other merchandise flying off the shelves...
former University of Texas at Austin roommate, translates perfectly into celluloid. As Anderson explains, “I feel like Owen and I have a sensibility or voice that we have found together. I think we’ve got to continue with it.” “Luckily we’re kind of simpatico with our sensibilities and stuff,” Wilson chimes...
...road, at more than 60 martial-arts training schools. Fields bristling with rows of corn give way to a landscape of young boys?often several hundred to a class?moving in eerie synchronization as they kick and punch their way toward dreams of stardom as martial masters or celluloid action heroes. Most of the more than 20,000 students will return home after a few years to humble lives as security guards or construction workers. The fortunate few will be chosen by the abbot as monks, earning the Buddhist surname "Shi." They'll pay their dues at the temple...
...Every scene bulges at the celluloid seams with suggestive possibility. Each is a geometric poem of spatial awareness, the juxtaposition of animate and inanimate. As mother and son sit down for dinner, half of their fish tank fills the bottom right of the screen, and a ghostly white fish swims in and out of the frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from...
...York is more than a city of concrete and steel. It?s also a kind of a dream metropolis, a place constructed of celluloid and ink, videotape and song. It?s hard to think about New York without thinking about the work of the various artists who have, over the decades, rebuilt the city in their work, from Herman Melville to Ralph Ellison to Jay McInerney, from the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley to current-day Big Apple hip-hoppers like Nas and Jay-Z. Some works help more than just artistic rebuilding, like the one taking place on October...