Word: chaplinitis
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...most actors, it's a long climb from player to coach. In the silent era, pioneer director D.W. Griffith had entered movies as an actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported...
...director is Spain's most admired artist. "He can't go anywhere anymore in Spain--he's mobbed, he's like the Beatles," says Geraldine Chaplin, who plays a supporting role in the film. Chaplin fears not for his life but for his sensibility, lonely in the distracting crowd. Almodovar disagrees. "I live as closely as possible to the way I've always lived," he says, but he acknowledges that this is not easy. The character in Talk to Her he identifies with is not the bustling Benigno but Lydia, the bullfighter: "The relationship between the bull and the matador...
...British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship for his "outstanding contribution to world cinema"; in London. Mills won an Oscar in 1971 for his performance in Ryan's Daughter, and was knighted five years later for his service to film. Previous winners of the Fellowship award include Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg...
...dire enough, because the sharira is still waiting to be discovered when the diabolical Karl (played by Richard Roxburgh) sets his sights on it. (We know Karl is evil from the start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires Eric (Chaplin), a master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao...
...players in The Touch are clearly giving it their all. Chaplin and Roxburgh, the film's principal Western actors, could have treated the movie as a catered summer trip to China. Instead, the genial Chaplin, a British actor who made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept...