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...paying a visit to Reading. And now they can lodge at the Forbury, a new luxury hotel aimed at the BlackBerry set. Owner Toby Hunter spent $10 million transforming the Edwardian county hall into a place where work meets play. The Forbury has several large meeting rooms, a small cinema for presentations and wi-fi access throughout. It's as grand as a country manor?a chandelier made of 84,000 glass beads shimmers in the stairwell?but with only 24 bedrooms, it's cozy, too. "I thought of the things you enjoy when you stay with friends," says Hunter...
...Owner Toby Hunter spent $10 million transforming the Edwardian county hall into a place where work meets play. The Forbury has several large meeting rooms, a small cinema for presentations and wi-fi access throughout. It's as grand as a country manor - a chandelier made of 84,000 glass beads shimmers in the stairwell - but with only 24 bedrooms, it's cozy, too. "I thought of the things you enjoy when you stay with friends," says Hunter, "whether it's the little touches they put in your room, a great meal or a cold drink on the terrace...
...Only in East Asia, far from the multiplexes and tastemakers, was there a truly vigorous popular cinema. Hong Kong directors, actors and stunt coordinators were showing how movies could be both wildly vigorous and eye-poppingly artful. The admirers of these films had to search out their treasures in specialty video stores and, for the pure experience, in ratty theaters dotting the Chinatowns of major cities. But that was part of the Hong Kong thrill. Seeing an in-his-prime Jackie Chan action film on Canal Street - where the locals chatted and noshed through the movie, and you always propped...
...Among these fanciers were the young men who would form the collective known as Subway Cinema. Back around the turn of the millennium, they were just five guys with a dream. They loved Hong Kong action movies and wanted to see more, and share them, especially as the theaters that showed them were shuttering. The last Chinatown movie house in Manhattan, the Music Palace Theatre, went out of business in June 2000. Not only did the U.S. venues for Hong Kong cinema close down; so, pretty much, did Hong Kong cinema. Fewer movies are made in the Special Administration Region...
...Still and all, the Subway Cinema lads haven?t lost their eyes. Even their conventional choices display pinwheeling formal expertise. Simply by being shown on a New York movie screen, these films underline the cinematic stodginess of most American films. Compared to a movie like the Korean Duelist or the Japanese Cromartie High School, the Hollywood product looks pretty paltry...