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...Klux Klan-praising 1915 film The Birth of a Nation. Projecting spliced images of digitally enhanced footage from Griffith’s film with new clips onto three big screens and mixing it live with blues and hip-hop music, Miller remixes, revisits, and condenses the silent three-hour epic into a 75-minute multimedia experience, in a process that subverts traditional musical accompaniment to silent films...
...late-year releases could help rectify the cinematic damage done by the entire year of 2004 as well. Big nostalgia-filled period epic adaptation of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha? Check. Big pseudo-political Steven Spielberg movie about the 1972 Munich Olympics? Check again, with the bonus round of remakes (The Producers, All the King’s Men) and a sequel to Underworld! Finally...
Chunhyang, released in 2000, was adapted from a traditional epic and recounts the embattled life and tragic death of the titular courtesan. In the film, Kwon-taek combines the conventions of historical melodrama and musicals in ways reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, which, incidentally, beat Kwon-taek’s film for the Palm d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival...
...loyalty, it should have re-renamed the arena Boston Garden and then, in the tradition of most halftime shows these days, added a little, semi-noticeable blurb underneath saying “Presented by TD Banknorth.” Exactly why the company thought elongating an arena name to epic lengths would endear goodwill among Boston’s famously ornery inhabitants is unclear, but given TD Banknorth’s size and distinction we can rest assured it was the wrong decision...
Tonight, as well as Saturday evening, Im will be at the Harvard Film Archive to kick off three screenings taking place under the auspices of their “Directors in Focus” series. At 7 p.m., the Archive will show Chunhyang, a romantic epic that, like several of Im’s films, is related by a traditional pansori singer—and which with its sweeping sets and lavish costumes, recalls both the Korean theatrical and Hollywood musical traditions from which it draws. Chihwaseon, a portrait of Korea’s great artist and brush master Jang...