Word: cinemae
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LENI RIEFENSTAHL might be remembered as cinema's greatest woman director or as its most gifted documentary filmmaker, whose two-part Olympia, a record of the 1936 Summer Games, pioneered techniques and attitudes copied in virtually all TV sports coverage. Instead, she is vilified as the venal genius who glamorized the Hitler myth in 1935's Triumph of the Will. This record of a Nazi Party Congress rally in Nuremberg still sickens with its close-up view of the spellbinding Fuhrer (this was the original Springtime for Hitler), still enthralls with the artful precision of its editing craft. A wily...
...needn't stand in the block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag a cab. One Toronto taxi driver-we'll call him Mohsen-launched into a passionate lecture on the state of Iranian cinema, listing the names of Iranian directors who had new work on show. "Of course the master is Kiarostami," he said, as if that name would be as familiar to his passengers as Spielberg...
...theater. He used to take me to plays. I've always been fascinated by plays. I've always felt that there was something very real about plays. "The Spirit" was originally done with a cinematic approach because I felt that the language at the time was being impacted by cinema and cinematic ideas. [But] I was never really satisfied with it. It was interesting and fun to experiment with but for me live theater is a reality. You understand that I am writing for believability. All my stories start [metaphorically] with the words "Believe me." Real theater is the closest...
...would Kitano trade in his pistols for samurai swords and tackle the legacy of a cinema legend? Why abandon the complexity of his recent films to remake an action franchise that he admits he "did not particularly" like? The answer is simple: because he was ordered to do so by a 76-year-old strip-club owner and former nude dancer named Chieko Saito, known to her family, friends and everyone else around her as Mama...
...Young consumers are also reshaping how large sections of the economy work. Take, for example, the cinema industry. Movie houses have been almost exclusively mom-and-pop outfits and, as a result, old, dingy and broken down. But the young, high-spending crowd is enticing major corporate players to invest. Bombay-based Inox Leisure opened its first two multiplexes over the past year and is investing $50 million to build 11 more, each with as many as six screens, by mid-2005. Shishir Baijal, Inox's CEO, estimates that 100 multiplexes are in the works nationally. Though he charges...