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...movies that she loves. She also thinks that Brattle is one of the few places of any interest in Harvard Square and the only theater that is worth going to. Many people agree with Cochran and see the Brattle as a haven for anybody who truly loves the cinema...
...MFA’s Weekend of New Greek Cinema...
...drawn, Naveeda crouches before a kerosene lamp and whispers the lyrics of a popular love song to her family--softly, so that no one will report her. "We're like dead people," says her brother Nadir. "When the evening comes, there's no electricity, no radio, no TV, no cinema...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Getting the word out overseas is still a challenge. Few moviegoers outside of the country can name a Korean actor or director or, for that matter, a Korean film. Jason Chae is trying to change that. Working as a cinema journalist in the mid-'90s, he was dismayed to find Korean flicks overshadowed by Japanese and Chinese entries at international festivals because nobody was bothering to promote them. Chae, who grew up as a movie nut, set up Mirovision in 1998, the first company to promote and sell Korean movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make...