Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book, you sat through the mini-series, now applaud the costumes, scenery and special effects. Oh, yes, there's also a musical going on, but despite the efforts of an able (and authentically Asian) Broadway cast, the show remains as passive and emotionless as the unseen puppet Emperor...
...last week at the press conference Matsushita president Akio Tanii conducted by satellite video hookup after the deal was announced. In answer to an American reporter's hypothetical question about what Tanii would do if Universal wanted to make a Japan-bashing film or one that criticized the late Emperor Hirohito, Tanii responded ambiguously, "Something like that shouldn't emerge. Filmmakers must create films that are inspirational, that will be enjoyable for everybody." Many interpreted his answer as a chilling assertion that future Universal film projects must meet home-office approval. Said a startled George Kirgo, president of the Writers...
Last month the leader of Collor's party in Congress resigned, grousing that the President was behaving like "an unthroned emperor." Now Collor must establish a dialogue with Congress. That dialogue may result in wage hikes and other measures that could carry Brazil into a new round of hyperinflation...
...revealed their itch for romantic catastrophe. But movies are as different from novels as show is from tell. The director who would adapt this treacherous tale must find resources other than interior monologues and wan philosophizing. Bertolucci knew this when, after conquering China and Hollywood with The Last Emperor, he and co-screenwriter Mark Peploe approached The Sheltering Sky. "Instead of using language and psychology, I wanted to be more physical," he says. "I wanted you to feel the smells, the heat, even the cold -- suddenly you see snow on the tops of the camels. And in this film...
Some viewers, who believe movies should be easy and edifying, will say of Kit and Port: Such small people. But nearly all of Bertolucci's films, from Before the Revolution to The Conformist, from 1900 to The Last Emperor, are big canvases holding tiny, forlorn souls. Because of the performers' power, the Moresbys come alive onscreen as they never quite did in the book. Bertolucci looks at Malkovich, the lizardly eminence of Dangerous Liaisons, and thinks of Brando: "They are two monoliths, unchanging, absolutely still -- and, from the first moment, condemned." Winger, for too many years the great unused actress...