Word: cinema
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...teen, Cruz, now 32, saw Almodóvar's erotic comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, starring another of Spain's cinema exports indebted to the director, Antonio Banderas. From then on, "my main motivation to become an actress was to work with Pedro," Cruz says. "I was kind of obsessed about it." In 1997, at 22, she got her wish, playing a prostitute loudly giving birth on a Madrid city bus in Live Flesh. Then the director, whose films are populated by heroic transvestites and lovable hookers, cast her in another memorable maternity part in All About My Mother...
...Seal, and saw the light. The knight playing chess with Death, the panorama of medieval questing and suffering, the clowns and flagellants, all convinced me: this was art! There were movies, I knew, and now... there was film! A thing apart and above. The sacred, rarefied, demanding goddess of cinema...
...films in the U.S. And every one of my colleagues made another point: foreign films may be dying in theaters, but they are surviving, thriving, soaring on DVD. As Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic for The Chicago Reader and DVD reviewer for cinema-scope.com, noted, there's a wealth of international cinema out there, including films that never play in American theaters or film festivals - and it's all on disc, to be rented or bought, either online or at the more comprehensive video stores...
...Bresson may be to cinema what Poussin is to painting: an undeniable master whose supremely reserved style, while not easy to warm to, must be reckoned with by anybody seriously interested in the medium. Yet his work feels most like that of his beloved Cezanne, something like the last word in modernism. He's often paired with Dreyer because of their shared taste for visual and narrative austerity and because of the book Transcendental Style in Film; Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, a seminal work of film scholarship by the screenwriter and director Paul Schrader...
...Three later films - The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss and Lola - by the dissolute genius of German cinema, who died in 1982 at age 37. The films make an indispensable trilogy that charts the history of postwar Germany in terms set by the vivid melodramas that Fassbinder adored. (BRD stands for Bundesrepublik Deutschland - German for West Germany.) Among the more than three hours of documentaries and specially produced features on disc four are exceptionally lucid interviews with Fassbinder's three stars, Hanna Schygulla, Rosel Zech and Barbara Sukowa. The audio commentary on Maria Braun is by director Wim Wenders...