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Cinephiles know the Winnipeg-based Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs) as a unique, independent spirit who makes modern movies with exquisitely anachronistic techniques: fake degraded stock, blue and yellow tints, declamatory acting styles and lighting so soft-focus, Garbo could have bathed in it. The Saddest Music in the World, based on a script by Kazuo Ishiguro (author of The Remains of the Day), is Maddin's first superproduction. It boasts a $2.5 million budget and a few actors you may have heard of: Rossellini, Euro-Kewpie Maria de Medeiros and Mark McKinney from...
...Star in Her Own Right Richard Corliss's so-called appreciation of Hong Kong pop star and actress Anita Mui, who died in December from cervical cancer, was downright condescending [Jan. 12]. Corliss compared Mui with Greta Garbo, but he gave Mui only a fraction of the respect that Garbo has received. Corliss seemed unaware of the tapestry of friendships Mui wove throughout her life in the treacherous world of show business and unaware, too, of the professionalism she displayed in the series of performances she gave in the months before her death. Mui was more than an "Asian Madonna...
...third year of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science named ?All Quiet on the Western Front? the best picture of 1930. In its third year, the New York Film Critics? Circle convened in Rockefeller Center?s Rainbow Room to cite Greta Garbo as 1937?s best actress, in ?Camille.? The third year of the Tony Awards, 1949, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan won for ?The Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place...
...sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...least in this sense, Quentin Tarantino is a traditionalist. "People talk about beautiful actresses," says Tarantino. "Like Cameron Diaz--she's a beautiful girl. But I went to high school with three girls who look like Cameron Diaz. Uma Thurman is a different species. She's up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory." Like a 3-year-old, Tarantino demonstrates his affection through inventive cruelty. In Pulp Fiction he gave Thurman an adrenaline needle to the heart (a nice metaphor for love, Tarantino style). But that was a barrel of rose petals compared with what he cooked...