Word: cinemae
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...paternal butler in Batman Begins and Nicole Kidman's pop in Bewitched, Michael Caine is summer cinema's father figure...
There is no question that the powerful processor and graphics of the Xbox 360 will bring about a new wave of cinema-quality games the likes of which we can barely imagine. But I do not want to invite Bill Gates into my living room. The thought of coping with software problems and rebooting before I can watch TV, listen to music or look at photos of my kids' birthday parties is scary...
...years, British mini-series from venerable fiction have been packaged in the U.S. in a series called Masterpiece Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling...
...largely been a misnomer. What usually comes in that box is everything but the TV, a very expensive, very necessary piece of the theater puzzle. RadioShack just introduced a product (which comes in a single, easy to carry box) that truly has everything you need to bring the cinema home. It's a DLP projector with built-in DVD player and stereo speakers, plus a subwoofer. Videophiles might desire a better, more complicated rig, but I was impressed with the simplicity of the set up and the quality of the movie-watching experience...
...spaceships and special effects. Until he does that, I will prefer directors like Steven Spielberg, whose films Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan show how deeply he can engage people's emotions. While I respect Lucas, if he wants to engrave his name in the annals of cinema, he needs to produce something quite different from the children's entertainment he has been making. Abbas Ali Massah Tehran What a coincidence: almost exactly 60 years after the end of World War II in Europe, the Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, is on Time's cover. I imagine...