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...lovelier chaos, because it hinted at a looming cultural phenomenon, came last year with the midnight screening of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Or rather the nonscreening; the movie broke down and had to be rescheduled. Outside the theater, star Sacha Baron Cohen, in character, was dragged to the cinema in a cart by a gaggle of actresses playing Kazakh wenches. Two months later, the film was released, and real people got to see what all the insanity was about. Borat grossed more than $100 million Stateside, and Baron Cohen got an Oscar...
...next 14 years Antonioni made only two fiction features: the bleak and glorious Zabriskie Point and the meandering Passenger, with its one climactic sequence of nearly unrivaled technical virtuosity. He didn't fall out of critical or popular favor so much as he gracefully receded from view, like Thomas at the end of Blowup. By the late '70s the movie environment had changed, and not for the better. Hollywood was reluctant to finance the chancy projects of a double-domed European of Social Security age, when kids in L.A. could bring in hundreds of millions with their clever toy movies...
...China's size and heterogeneity, it's easy to buy into the myth of a monolithic state. That myth is burnished by central government in Beijing, and also by the common habit among its citizens of starting a sentence with the phrase, "We Chinese..." Every citizen knows that their glorious homeland boasts 5,000 years of history - a fact that regularly gets repeated when a reporter from a mere pup of a nation 231 years old gets too uppity...
...cooler, appraisal admiration; and Queer Duck I thought just silly, sublimely so. But often, as I watched, I wondered: Why can't the makers of live-action films take one-tenth the care these guys did? Why are so many animated features bursting with wild imagination, coherent characters, glorious visualizing - all we should expect from film - and "real" movies aren...
...free to show a lovely face in slow motion, as you do endlessly with Nevins'. The Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai has built a brilliant career on that technique. You selected Wong's longtime cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, in part because he would know how to work a similarly glorious magic...