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...present Manuel Penella's 1916 Spanish opera El Gato Montes as well as Antonio Carlos Gomes' 1870 Il Guarany, written, alas, in Italian but set in the Amazon. Meanwhile, the Houston Grand Opera offers the world premiere of Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, based on stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...movie is also filled with the sort of magical realism that (in the tradition of "Like Water for Chocolate," "House of the Spirits" and ultimately Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has recently become a trademark of Latin American productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...
Martin Guerre is the big news and the big disappointment in a London season filled with intimate epics (all of War and Peace in 4 1/2 affecting hours!), incandescent stars (a ragged but potent revival of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield and Vanessa Redgrave), one thrilling biodrama (Pam Gems' Stanley, on English painter Stanley Spencer) and lots of musicals about dead pop singers (Buddy, Elvis and, for Pete's sake, Jolson...
...Depp), who leaves his fiancee and Cleveland for a job in the wild, wasted West. He finds the usual Western movie staples there, crossing the tyrannic mill owner (Robert Mitchum), sleeping with Thell (Mili Avital), the hooker with the heart of gold, and shooting her no-good lover Charlie(Gabriel Byrne) when guntoting Charlie finds the two of them in bed. From there, however, the Western idiom begins to unravel as our hero, with a bullet in his heart, disappears into the wilderness to hide from the posse sent after...
...movies--those two-hour, live-action behemoths that saturate the multiplexes--some of the cinema's most inventive talents are working in miniature: short films, music videos, commercials. Park, 37, a star of Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, has done it all, contributing to the 1986 Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and a series of spots for Britain's Heat Electric utility. But Park is best known for his own four films, all Oscar winners or nominees: Creature Comforts (1989), a five-minute potpourri of comments by ordinary English folk put into the mouths of zoo animals; and the three Wallace...