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This dimpled, soft-spoken gent is proving again what has always been true: that American cinema is nourished by the artistry and vision of foreigners (Chaplin and Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder). Lately it has been the Asians' turn to show us how films can kick higher or probe deeper. Lee's films do both...
...This life-size reconstruction, at Paris' Pompidou Center, of one of cinema's most memorable scenes is evidence that Alfred Hitchcock's art has made it into the Western canon. Part Planet Hollywood-style memorabilia collection, part film archive and very much a study of the master of suspense's influences and inspirations, "Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences" is the museum's first attempt to establish a filmmaker's oeuvre within the context of the other arts. The show is on until Sept. 24. Influential paintings, sculptures, novels, storyboards, stills, film clips and photographs play off each other to reveal...
...life, Lemmon became one of American cinema's grand old men, almost by default - all his first bananas had long since left us. And as those small yet bottomless eyes became beveled-off with crinkled skin, that look - plaintive, pleading, pathetic - never left them. His biographer was convinced he knew...
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's contention that Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay is "his generation's Spielberg or Lucas" is as laughable as some of the awful dialogue in that movie [CINEMA, June 4]. When Bay's camera isn't mooning over the three bland lead performances, it is wrapped in the American flag, always the first refuge of the terminally unimaginative...
...time. It's not like I haven't been trying." She has a point. Directors routinely talk of Shu Qi's soul as an actress?and how little of that essence makes it to the big screen. And that pinpoints one of the biggest problems with Hong Kong's cinema industry, now so celebrated in Hollywood. Drama isn't deemed commercially viable enough. The only genre now being made is action-latte. If Shu Qi is half as good as some directors believe she is, then there's scarcely a local vehicle out there to showcase her talent. French director...