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...Japan, South Korea made balky protests and stood on edgy alert. Yet to judge from some of the movies in this now world-class national cinema, you'd think the South's biggest political problem was the repression of its own postwar decades. In the 1970s its film industry produced a number of anti-Communist films; Dachimawa Lee is a parody of these gung-ho, better-dead-than-Red melodramas. That might register only as more grousing from the artistic Left, if the movie weren't so wildly and encyclopedically entertaining - a sendup and evocation of spy movies, with some...
...TIME's complete coverage: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival...
...Noir meets nutso in this black-and-white thriller from a vital national cinema whose films are virtually unknown in the U.S. After his car runs over something on a country road - turns out to be a skeleton - a tough-guy newspaperman stops in a small town that seems to be under the curse of a female ghost and is certainly teeming with oddballs. It's the old story of the city slicker out-crazied by the remote rubes. Unfamiliarity with Malaysian film conventions may leave you wondering whether the tone is comic or melodramatic or simply extraterrestrial. No matter...
...need to be reincarnated, as himself. Originally a series of spots for MTV India, the feature version is lovingly, lavishly, almost libelously indebted to Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns. It also makes passing reference to The Terminator, Pulp Fiction and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - and, since every Indian film needs a production number, it filches a song from the 1968 Tamil musical Oli Vilakku. By the end, when Quick Gun comes out blazing with eight gun-totin' arms, the movie has fulfilled the agenda of the NYAFF: to render its audience happy and helpless with head-swiveling astonishment...
...TIME's complete coverage: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival...