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...Such critiques might not matter if Hu & Co. really were turning back the clock to 1950. But Maoist China is hardly what the current leaders are striving to replicate. "The new leadership is keen to promote this socialist banner because it recalls an era when there was no challenge to the Communist Party," says Joseph Cheng, a China-watcher at City University in Hong Kong. "With unrest rising all over China, they want a justification for their monopoly on political power...
...Helping translate that dream beyond Ramingining time - and the reason for the Rome clock at Vertigo Productions - is Italian producer Domenico Procacci. First brought together on De Heer's breakthrough Bad Boy Bubby (1993), "he and Domenico got on like a house on fire," recalls Currie. A darkly comic fable about an idiot savant's reintroduction to the world, which we see and hear through his ears and eyes, Bad Boy took out the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and set in motion one of the film world's most unusual partnerships. Without Procacci's investment...
...Song (1998), in which De Heer explores the emotional and sexual life of a woman with cerebral palsy. De Heer says his Italian connection "has made it easier to make the sorts of films I like to make." Which brings us back to the other wall clock: Adelaide. At first it might seem strange that Australia's riskiest filmmaker should choose to reside in this relatively sleepy hollow. But as with his seemingly free-form films, nothing in De Heer's life is without a purpose...
...simply democratization of the production of information; the democratization of access is at least as valuable as our individual ability to participate. We don’t have to settle anymore for the newspaper someone tosses into the driveway or be satisfied with the five o’clock news broadcast. We always knew there was more. Now we can get it speedily and easily.We can—and many of us do—assemble our own news reports from these vast data streams. We can use tools to help navigate our way through the masses of information...
...strapped” aside, you can rage against any machine you please and you choose the seatbelt law? DJ Babu saves the day occasionally. “Back Again” is a great single with chipmunked out vocal samples and an insistent guitar loop. “Alarm Clock Music” brings the close-quarters paranoia that’s been floating around the West Coast for years, and “20/20” is stuffed, Bomb Squad-style, to the breaking point. The MCs respond well to Babu’s better beats, shifting...