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...Yeoh (also known as Michelle Kahn) is getting the Hollywood treatment, and not just at her fingertips. Quentin Tarantino has literally knelt at her feet, quizzing her adoringly about her films. Oliver Stone calls Yeoh "a woman of elegance and magnificent grace--the young grande dame of Hong Kong cinema." And there's a big retrospective of Yeoh's films (which can also be found in specialty video stores) this week and next at New York City's Cinema Village Theatre. But the actress is getting more than kudos; she's getting work. Yeoh (pronounced Yo) is now filming...
...also says that the historical restriction of literature to an educated upper class continues to linger to this day, leading to the perception that poetry is an elitist art form. And Engell suggests that the cultural milieu of the past few decades may have been more heavily "saturated with cinema and politics" than with literature of any kind, leaving even less room for poetry...
While Hollywood and the Oscars toasted the crop of "independent" movies that blanketed the multiplexes last year, seasoned cineasts in search of pioneering film work kept flocking to the small screen of the PC. That's because the American Film Institute, through its online cinema on the Internet www.afionline.org/cinema) is showcasing the classics of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd--mavericks of the early 20th century's groundbreaking medium, silent film. With the help of VDOnet streaming video software, users have been able to watch real-time versions of such 20-min. shorts as Chaplin's The Rink...
...course! I mean, it's not the arts like the Brattle Street Playhouse, but the arts in the sense that it's cinema, it's film. Things like that. That's where you get Wall Street involved in financing. You really don't have any Wall Street involvement in theater. It's primarily individuals. You have the usual, you know, corporate backing, but that's the not-for-profit, like the New York Theater Workshop, which I'm a trustee of. Very little government support, at this point. Companies which are headquartered in New York give a lot of support...
Cars and sex do have things in common: acceleration, aggression, contact, combustion. Cinema, eternal celebrant of the stupid-funny car crash, is the ideal medium to anatomize America's fetishizing of the automobile. And Cronenberg is the very guy for the job. His first commercial film, Fast Company, was about stock-car racing; his brilliant remake of The Fly was a parable of love, decay and death, of man misguidedly using machinery to transform himself...