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...That was in the script,” said Ahluwalia.DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILSWhen so much energy is clearly devoted to details, how, then, can Anderson maintain a sense of the big picture? From early on, the director has been criticized for inconsistently reconciling his love of detail-oriented cinema with his job of macro-managing the creative reins. In short, the Texas native can sometimes get lost in own head. But he said he has no problem with that dilemma.“I like to embrace the idea of filling the movie with ideas,” he said, after...
...surprise non-Indians to know that Indian cinema has always been more than just Bollywood, as Hindi cinema is popularly known. In fact, true Bollywood movies make up only a fifth of the 1,000 or so films made in India every year. Film industries in the south - Tamil, Telegu, Malayali - are huge, as is the Bhojpuri industry in central India. India has also long produced first-rate art films, from the work the legendary Satyajit Ray to contemporary maestros like Govind Nihalani and Shyam Benegal. Critic Chakravorty says the new brand of cinema caters to the viewer...
...antics began to look oafish. Instead of being witty and wry, he came across as smug. And all of it became media fodder. In the words of one movie critic (O.K., Time's Richard Corliss), he was "a commodity that gets consumed in checkout lines" rather than in a cinema. Every decision he made appeared to be exactly the wrong...
...film’s visual density simply cannot compensate for its paucity elsewhere. Set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Hong Kong during World War II, the film spans the four-year attempt of a Chinese student drama group to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Asian cinema icon Tony Leung), using virginal Wong Jiazhi (newcomer Tang Wei) as a lure. Wong poses as a well-bred aristocratic wife, Ms. Mak, and employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative...
...first-ever Boston Palestine Film Festival opened with a bang this Saturday at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) with a documentary about Leila Khaled, who in 1969 was the first woman to hijack an airplane. Five venues, including the Harvard Film Archive and the Kendall Square Cinema, are featuring over 40 films and shorts, many of which have never been shown in the U.S. Dealing with a variety of topics ranging from the so-called “Iron Wall” to driving a cab in Los Angeles, the festival runs for nine days has surprised even...