Word: harkness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...harnesses the claustrophobia that's built into life in one of the world's most crowded cities, as pitched shootouts are fought inside the narrow confines of apartment hallways, elevator shafts, even the cluttered streets. It's not the oft-copied bullet ballet of John Woo or Tsui Hark; To's style is all hard lines and quick-trigger speed. But more than a decade after Woo brought Hong Kong to Hollywood, the deceptively simple pleasures of Breaking News shows that the original blueprint still works. It's as simple as tick, tick, boom...
...industry and the local tourist board have joined together to form Vitrocristal ACE, an organization to market a new range of glass called Marinha Grande, or mglass. Drawing on the work of 18 local companies and 24 young designers, mglass is giving a modern marketing push to designs that hark back to their utilitarian past, produced using skills that still take a decade to learn. Pick up a Glass Route "passport" from local tourist offices which will get you into the Glass Museum and the factories to see glassmaking the old-fashioned way - and if you ask nicely...
...morose, love story begins in Bangkok and then heads for the jungle, where man-beasts and other cinematic metaphors lurk. Few people sat through the whole film; fewer still found much merit in it. Yet it won a prize, apparently at the urging of jury member Tsui Hark...
...That story indicates the art-film vs. popular-movie split at Cannes. Tsui Hark is invited to serve on the jury; yet not one of his (or any other Hong Kong maestro's) action movies ever appeared in the competition. Nor did exceptional films by India's Mani Ratnam, Japan's Takashi Miike and Korea's Chang Yoon Hyun. It seems not to have occurred to Cannes that a continent containing nearly half the world's population?and many of its most avid moviegoers?might be producing some movies worth watching, and cheering, at an international film festival...
...fairly dreadful one: Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul?s ?Tropical Malady,? in which one man falls in love with another and tracks him through the jungle. This artless, plotless film had, according to Tarantino, ?the strongest defenders on the Jury.? And the strongest of those was apparently Tsui Hark...