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...eight years now, the New York Asian Film Festival has earned "Wow"s and "Huh?"s from Manhattan audiences with its savory mix of action and art-house works from the continent that produces more movies than any other. In its scope and vigor, this is the New York film festival, and it's run not by a heavily subsidized arts institution but by a few knowledgeable guys from Brooklyn who want to share their enthusiasms with the fanboys of the tristate area. The playlist has grown from 11 features in 2002 to more than 50 this time, and includes...
...Ever since Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon broke records for a foreign-language film at the Stateside box office, Asian directors have plundered Chinese history for tales of airborne warriors and another chance at the U.S. market. Chan, better known for romantic dramas like the superb Comrades: Almost a Love Story, could have a shot with this remake of Chang Cheh's 1973 kung-fu bromance Blood Brothers. He's certainly got star quality: Jet Li, Kaneshiro and Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau (who had the Matt Damon role in the film that was remade as The Departed...
...Jackson had hoped to star in a Steven Spielberg film of the James M. Barrie play Peter Pan, about the boy from Neverland who refuses to grow up. The story's reflection of his own needs, dreams and scars was poignant. In a tearful (and top-rated) interview with Oprah Winfrey, he confessed that his father had beat him and called him ugly (this beautiful child!). Who wouldn't want a makeover of that scarred youth? Once he had the money and power, the perpetually preadolescent Jackson moved into a fantasy version of childhood, in the company of young boys...
...protest movement - it says the paper failed to mention "evidence" by the Intelligence Ministry "which points to some foreign government's planning of this scenario." Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets it ... the way they've shot it from where the woman's car is." Iran's ambassador to Mexico reckons the killing could be the work of the CIA. "The bullet ... is of a kind that is not used in Iran. These are methods that terrorists, the CIA and espionage...
...attempt to draw more international visitors, the new attractions will include two themed areas - "Grizzly Trail" and "Mystic Point" - which will be exclusive to Hong Kong's Magic Kingdom for their first five years. A third area, "Toy Story Land" - based on the Disney/Pixar Toy Story film - will be exclusive within the Asian region. The expansion will boost the total number of attractions to more than 100 and enlarge its current space by nearly a third...