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...also been one for Doyle. Leaving his hometown of Sydney at 18 to join the merchant marine, the maverick Australian worked on a kibbutz in Israel and spruiked Chinese medicines in Thailand before falling in love with Hong Kong, its energy and women. There a freewheeling new cinema was taking off and, faster than you can say Chungking Express, the self-trained Doyle found himself at its center. The journey took him to Hollywood, where he added color to Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. And now Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence, his first...
...Cinema Verit?? By JYOTI THOTTAM...
...Hollywood blockbusters such as Gladiator, for just $1 per viewing. Operating out of Taiwan, Movie88 had no licensing or distribution agreements with the studios. Site founder S.E. Tan says he was doing film moguls a favor. "These Internet movies do not compare with the quality you see in the cinema," he says. "You watch it online, and if the movie is good, you go to the theater...
...Kwak's youthful sensibility mirrors the minds of his young characters, and the film is ambitious, hysterical and, by turns, exhilarating. Optimistic in tone and yet tragic at the end, Girl is a rewarding challenge?and further proof that Korean flicks are the sassiest girls on Asian cinema's block...
Such projects usually become pariahs. No one wants to work on them because everyone doubts they'll ever make it to the cinema. But Hallström pushed, getting Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) to pen a new script and recruiting an A-list cast. Kevin Spacey, who plays Quoyle, said Hallström was "the right kind of director to capture what was very difficult to put on film." Cate Blanchett and Julianne Moore, who signed on as Quoyle's love interests, both praised the freedom Hallström gives actors. "I don't impose performances," he says...