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...production centers for early American public porn films were San Francisco and New York, and the movies reflected the temperaments of their respective home towns. The San Francisco films have a grainy, cinema-verite style and a behavioral openness that seems a residue of the Summer of Love. Sex is free, man, sex is beautiful, and as long as we're having sex, why not share it with the camera? I don't know much about the performers in films like Mona and School Girl, but I imagine they were friends of the directors rather than professional thespians...
...first thing you notice is how much of the PSP's six and a half inch width is taken up by the surprisingly wide (4.3 inches), cinema-style screen. Intensely bright and vivid, with an LCD screen capable of displaying over 16 million colors, it can be easily viewed at arm's length or from any angle. The controls mimic those of the PlayStation home systems, with four input buttons on the right, a directional pad on the left, and two "shoulder" buttons on the top. It also has a neat little analog "stick," like the kind in laptops, which...
...While Hong Kong-made cinema was forgetting how to make money, mainland movies were striking box-office gold. Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers all proved that there's undoubted demand for good Chinese movies in Asia and beyond. But here's the hope for Hong Kong: even though each of those films were shot in the mainland with Chinese directors, they never would have been made without Hong Kong. Most of the films' stars hail from the city, and all of the movies were co-productions with Hong Kong companies that had experience...
...Evolve is something much of the industry has failed to do. Piracy, video and aggressive foreign competition eroded the market for the city's movies, while its once kinetic style grew stale. Yet even as Hong Kong struggles through creative and financial doldrums, Chinese-language cinema is poised to take off?as the increasingly mainland-oriented Hong Kong International Film Festival will demonstrate when it opens this week. Chinese films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only...
...film festival. "Actually, I believe that all creative people are schizophrenic," he says. Kapur's interest in the business of show biz runs to helping set up the Indian Film Festival and speaking for the Confederation of Indian Industry, for which he champions Asia as the promised land of cinema. "With the rise of Asian consumerism, in a decade 70% of all movie revenues will come from Asia," Kapur declares. "Asian culture will become the international norm. It's reverse cultural colonization. Hollywood will still be making Spider-Man movies, but when Spider-Man takes off his mask...