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...camera was in love with him, as long as he moved. And silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks was the man who put the movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another...
...conversation pieces, like Ridicule and Comment je me suis dispute (ma vie sexuelle), a three-hour talkathon that plays like six consecutive episodes of a French Friends. Iran, of all places, is the hot new movie culture--Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh registered as the festival's most folk-artful charmer--while the once estimable cinemas of Japan, Eastern Europe and Latin America have gone into hibernation...
...shop, she is almost swindled out of her money by a snake charmer, but his partner returns the money to her. Razieh arrives at the shop but discovers that she has lost the money. With the help of an old woman, she finds her money, but it falls down a grate. She spends most of her time trying to find a way to retrieve her money and finally does, with the help of her brother and a balloon seller...
...first-graders, all Latinos, belt out their favorite song, El Rancho Grande. In the book corner: Los Tres Cochinitos--The Three Little Pigs. On the wall: the seasons, the months, the days, in both Spanish and English. In a mock interview, teacher Marina Williams asks Fabiola, a gap-toothed charmer, "Senora Presidente, what should children do in school?" Fabiola shoots back, "Aprender ingles!"--learn English. But one small boy has another idea: "Bailar!"--dance. The teacher takes the hint, winding up the day with a session of "la quebradita," a sort of Mexican jitterbug...
With enough money, you can do anything. Warner Brothers, perhaps anxious to capture that Disney magic--at the box office--has poured its coffers into a shiny new child-charmer. "A Little Princess" proves that even a transparently moralizing, predictable story can look good if you spend enough money...