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...more at ease when talking about environmental issues or, better yet, the love of his life, Sundance. He warms when he speaks of the "cinema centers" that at this point are still a dream. He calls them "a mammoth undertaking" in which grand old Art Deco movie palaces would be restored and programmed with independent pictures and documentaries and equipped with libraries for film students...
Back in the roaring twenties, Shanghai doubled as Asia's commercial center and a playground for swashbuckling entrepreneurs from around the globe. Nightclubs like the Art Deco Ciro's and elegant hotels like the Cathay earned the city its nickname: the Paris of the Orient. And today, after decades in eclipse, Shanghai is once again red hot and swinging. As CEOs and heads of state gather there in October for conferences prior to the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, they will find plenty to do in their leisure time. Crumbling colonial villas have been converted into funky bars...
...your usual comix cover. Flipping it open you expect to find a catalogue of radio parts, but instead get sucked in by the new-old-fashioned penwork of Matt Kindt. He relies on just a few, expressive strokes and flat blocks of black ink to create the art deco world of "Pistolwhip." Nearly abstract slashes and squiggles organize themselves into characters and place, often seen from wild points of view. One panel uses a briefcase perspective, a gigantic wrist at the bottom and a tiny head...
SITE SEEING Where to Get into Hot Water If your idea of fun is bathing nude in a hot spring under the stars surrounded by snow-covered fir trees, or swanning around an art deco bathhouse with its own artificial beach, pay a visit to www.thermes.org, a guide to continental Europe's natural thermal baths. The site offers a listing of spas from the Ahr-Thermen in Germany to Zurzach in Switzerland. All recommended resorts are low-cost and open to anyone: they don't require visitors to sign up for a cure or a stay at a thermal hotel...
...center are the frames themselves, a credit sequence in block-like lettering with deep perspective shadows. The words appear over a Deco keystone graphically linked to the logo of the studio that made this movie: RKO Radio Pictures. It's hard to make out the words in the 16mm frames; the sequence is right at the end of a dissolve, and in many of the frames you read two words in the place of one. Only at one end of the strip do the words become clear: there's "Technical Staff," under that "E.B." someone, maybe "Gibson," then "Marcel Delgado...