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...least in that department I was somewhat qualified." The Wayne Wang film, due out next August, stars newcomer ANNASOPHIA ROBB and oldcomer Eva Marie Saint. Matthews, who dabbled in local theater before his music career took off, says he was reluctant to play a musician in his screen debut. "If I'm going to stumble blindly around the dark room of acting, I'd like to do it with as little common ground with my other career as possible," he says. For instance, the crowd here is much less of a zoo than he's used...
...Ever since her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan's fiction has sought to unweave the tangled web of family memory and to trace those threads that span continents?Asia and North America?and generations. Tan's stolid Chinese mothers are the repositories of those tightly bound reminiscences; to their conflicted daughters falls the duty of unraveling them. The Opposite of Fate is an attempt to pull at some of the loose ends, with added ruminations on the quirks of celebrity authorship, recollections of rocking-and-rolling with Stephen King and an inevitable (and forgettable) commencement address...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair discover Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking...
...exhibit raised $2,000 during its Wednesday night debut, said HMS student and initiative co-founder Emily Pinto-Wong...
...film’s narrative into an intricate sequence of short, hard-hitting vignettes allows for an almost voyeuristic glimpse into the characters’ lives—like flipping through a photo album of scenes. The technique is similar to that employed in his eye-opening directorial debut, Amores Perros—merging form and content in a gritty web of ruptured lives told from an even further ruptured perspective. In 21 Grams, though, the technique is upped to Memento-like dimensions, with past, present and future jumbled up into a cinematic timeline with no strict patterns...