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...Then, after these grim fairy tales, we would go to a formal beach party thrown by the films' producers and discuss the plight of the world's unfortunates over caviar and bottles of Ch?teau Mouton Rothschild. That's radical chic at cinema's most glamorous clambake...
...Barmak started by gathering scraps of discarded filmstrip from the garbage bins of movie theaters, taping them together and putting on screenings for his friends. "I even charged them," he chuckles. His passion earned him a scholarship to Moscow's prestigious All-Union State Cinema Institute in 1981 (Afghanistan was then under Soviet control), and a decade later he landed the directorship of the government-run Afghan Film Studio in Kabul. When the Taliban took the city, Barmak fled to the north, where he made documentaries for the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was later assassinated...
...much of Afghanistan is illiterate," says Barmak. "The only way to teach people is through movies." Most of the venues suitable for screening films had been destroyed, so he took his movies on the road. He dispatched eight teams of projectionists around the country in what he calls cinema caravans-cars loaded with video projectors, amplifiers and screens-which stopped in every town to show not only the educational films but also old classics such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reels. The outdoor screenings were a hit, and the projectionists stayed up late into the nights, showing the movies...
...best-known films, Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark - is a parable of inner beauty defiled, except that, this time, the heroine gets to kill all her attackers. The film was also labeled anti-American, because that's today's fragrance. But Von Trier is mainly a cinema experimentalist, and Dogville is another of his clever ideas stretched to the breaking point. He resolved to make a movie with no sets, just the floor outline of the town's homes and stores, with empty door frames that slam after people have walked through them. It's a great...
...After many rigorous films, many fights with the censor board, he is entitled to pull a few plot strings, to pluck a few heartstrings--to make a film that wants to be liked. And isn't an audience that was nurtured on the doomsday screeds of art-house cinema entitled to vacation in the warmth of a superior film about a boy with almost too many people to love? --By Richard Corliss