Word: cinemae
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...dysfunctional characters collectively known as Les Bronzés (the Suntanners) have become Gallic cultural icons. Their egotism and low-brow fixations are still catnip to French comedy fans even though their debut film hit the screens a full 28 years ago. Their second - and only other - sortie into cinema, Les Bronzés Go Skiing, released a year later, marked their last incarnation. It's been a long wait, but last week the whole team, older but definitely no wiser, returned to the fray with a third film, Les Bronzés 3: Friends For Life. "This movie...
...dynamic cultural destination. It boasts an archeological museum that possesses more artifacts from ancient Egypt - including the sarcophagus of Nefertiti - than anywhere outside of Cairo. The city's symbol, the Mole Antonelliana, a dome-plus-spire built in 1889 as part of a synagogue, now houses a fun cinema museum. Even Fiat's onetime central auto factory, the Lingotto, has been converted by architect Renzo Piano into a spiffy cultural and consumer mecca that includes an Agnelli art museum, a theater, a shopping mall and a five-star hotel. The Games have gone a long way toward updating Torino...
...such a nasty premise. To be fair, in an epilogue the author writes, "The true scope of my work can only be understood after you have read my later stories." Sexism aside, The Push Man collection feels as fresh and revelatory as when the works of Japanese cinema first began arriving...
...resident of Australia's most isolated city, Perth, where she teaches cinema and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, the author has herself become dependent on phone and e-mail. As with fellow West Australians Tim Winton and Elizabeth Jolley, isolation has brought its own literary rewards for Jones, 50. "It's a supportive writing community," she says of Perth, "and feels outside of the more pathological aspects of competition and anxiety that sometimes seem to me very conspicuously a part of Melbourne and Sydney." And it's perhaps no accident that the themes of distance and disclosure...
...waves to Cellophane with bravura flair. But it is the invention of the Lumiere brothers that most delights the author and her characters. Whether transmitted via Greta Garbo's laugh or screen Delilah Hedy Lamarr (who we learn helped patent a frequency-hopping radio-controlled torpedo during WW II), cinema's light becomes the counterpoint to the private sorrows of Mr. Sakamoto and his confidante. The novelist says her love of movies began at the Sun, one of Australia's oldest cinemas, in Broome, Western Australia, and in Dreams it is the medium which mediates a century of darkness...