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Directing the world's most successful Aramaic film must make a guy a little cocky. MEL GIBSON, whose The Passion of the Christ earned nearly $1 billion despite its ancient dialogue, is planning another violent epic in a language understood by practically no one. This fall Gibson will head to Mexico to direct his historical action script Apocalypto in an obscure Maya dialect. Luckily "it doesn't appear like there's going to be a lot of dialogue in the film," says Gibson's publicist. "He's a very visual director." In that case, we suggest Gibson next tackle...
...magic of Hogwarts, but reassuring to discover of late that Mr. Darcy remains his charming self. If anyone understands the power books have over me, it is my father. He would return home from work on hot summer days to find me covered in blankets after having finished another epic. Thus, in one last effort to make me an athlete, my father bought me a book that fateful summer I abandoned the racket: The Zen of Tennis. Still resting on my bookshelf, it is one of those books that never managed to enter my summer fling radar...
...slow to take hold in an oral society. In the early 1970s, when he returned to Apia to teach, Wendt concluded: "Samoa has no need of writers. It is waiting for tourists." But the writer persevered - and became one of the Pacific's best-known novelists. Wendt's 2003 epic The Mango's Kiss dramatizes the encounter between a village girl, Pele, loosely based on Wendt's grandmother, and a Scottish novelist called Leonard Roland Stenson. Is he a sympathetic character? "Hell, yes," says Wendt. "In the novel, he leaves his library of books to the young Samoan woman...
...just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori were of Aryan descent, to Thor Heyerdahl's attempt, in his epic 1947 raft trip from Peru to Polynesia, to prove that South America was the Polynesians' homeland...
...dateless 14-year-old boys, European films of the art-house variety are trying to be more adult by showing more sex. Not pretend sex, to mirror the spectacles of fake violence in summer action pictures, but genuine, clinical whoopee. The French led the way, with the sex-splatter epic Baise-moi and Catherine Breillat's Romance. Now comes the first film (actually, digital video) by a respected British director--Michael Winterbottom, whose works include Welcome to Sarajevo, Jude and 24 Hour Party People...