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...Surrealists loved bad movies, seeing them as subversive attacks on the tyranny of narrative form. What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface? - J. Hoberman in "Bad Movies," Film Comment, July-August...
...powerful boss. Swift, spare and violent, with bullet ballets staged in deserted malls, the film played like The Seven Samurai (minus two) in Alphaville. It was another To essay on a man's dedication to the work ethic, no matter what line of work he's in. For cine-philes everywhere, The Mission offered proof that the Heroic Bloodshed genre had not died out with the emigration to the U.S. of John Woo, Tsui Hark and Ringo...
...year-old Taiwanese seductress has made no less than 45 movies. One of her first, Sex and Zen II, is a soft-porn classic, the Emmanuel of Asia. Two of her films just debuted amid the incomparable glare of Cannes: Millennium Mambo and Beijing Rocks. Hong Kong singer-cine idol Leslie Cheung calls Shu Qi a "sex goddess." (And Cheung knows something about being adored by the crowd.) Chinese director Yonfan is even more gushing: "I think of Catherine Deneuve," he says. "A lady daring enough to do different roles...
...victory dance, she may be the last skeptic. The woman whose face is known across Asia yet who still isn't quite a star is making it onto the A list. Millennium Mambo put Shu Qi under the tutelage of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, a serious cine-aficionado who almost single-handedly put Taiwanese art films on the global map. (The two plan to start work on another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat?but Shu Qi's performance...
...would top directors agree to make cine commercials? "Basically, they get to do a film every two years," says Steve Golin, whose company, Anonymous Content, is producing the series. "For this, their time is going to be four or five weeks, they'll get paid good money, there won't be much interference. They jumped at the chance, especially people who didn't have jobs because of the looming writers' strike." Frankenheimer, who hadn't made a short film since he directed Air Force documentaries in the early '50s, sees his film as nearly commercial free. "We banged...