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...Bachchan's Triumph Alex Perry's article on Indian film superstar Amitabh Bachchan was a treat for all his fans [Oct. 3]. Although he is the face of Indian cinema to millions of people, Bachchan's entry into filmdom was not spectacular, as he made a series of flops before his first hit, Zanjeer. His perseverance and persistence paid off finally once his professionalism came to the fore. Even when the media were hell-bent on finishing off his career each time a movie bombed, he resurfaced and confounded his detractors. Most Indians admire Bachchan not just for his talent...
...trashy 1977 adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel about an evil computer that impregnates Julie Christie. I should also mention that the computer, whose name is Proteus, uses a bronze metal phallus.Why must we look back in disgusted admiration at such an objectively absurd film? Certainly not because American cinema is in need of more misogyny, more rape scenes, or more metal phalli. Rather, our horror films—which are supposedly the products of a rich, illustrious Western mythic tradition dating back to who-knows-when—have become stale and boringly safe. Consider what dark fantasies have...
...equally probing, sexual, violence-infiltrated “L’Humanité” in 1999, then again with his first English-language film, “Twentynine Palms” in 2003. On October 24-30, Harvard Film Archive will be presenting On Set with French Cinema, its annual program designed for French directors to relate their stories and directorial know-how to an American audience. This year, the program will spotlight Bruno Dumont, in honor of his award-winning works, which have so adroitly walked the tightrope between entertainment and art. Besides screening his three feature...
...character completely," he says. Mangold believed that for the film to be authentic, the actors needed to play and sing, not rely on looped music. "With all due respect, I don't think of Natalie Wood's performance in West Side Story as one of the hallmarks of musical cinema," says Mangold. (As for Ray, 2004's biopic about a drug-addicted music legend from the South, which used looping, Mangold says, "I don't think I want to go there.") Phoenix, who had no musical background, figured he would learn to play the same way Cash did, without formal...
Thematically landing between Thurber’s “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” and queer cinema classic “The Birdcage,” the recently released (and unauthorized) video San Francisco director Ryan Junell created for Spoon’s “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine,” from “Gimme Fiction,” their latest album, is definitely interesting. After all, self-proclaimed “bad-ass drag-king” Johnny Kat makes a cameo appearance...