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...Lucas was Hollywood's wonder boy. He could direct anything he wanted, at a time when directors were being canonized as artists-auteurs. Instead, Lucas passed the directorial reins of The Empire Strikes Back to middle-aged, small-drama helmer Irvin Kershner...
...takes hero Kakihara, (Japanese renaissance everyman Tadanobu Asano) to a blissful death in Ichi the Killer; in the modern Japanese cinema, death seems the only way out. This all-star gathering of evildoers unites ultraviolent comic artist Hideo Yamamoto, from whose manga the film was created, and screen violence helmer Miike Takahashi, who created last year's cult sensation Audition. Kakihara is a sado-masochistic punk gangster caught up in an underworld where dysfunction speaks louder than love. When his yakuza boss mysteriously disappears, Kakihara hunts for his abductor. In the process, he turns a mansion into a phantasmagorical torture...
...Isle took sexual fetishism to new extremes: fishhooks became S&M tools. Park Chul Soo's feminist 301, 302 developed a friendship between a female anorexic and her overweight neighbor?only for the larger woman to eat the anorexic. Dogs, directed by first-time helmer Bong Joon Ho, takes on a lesser taboo in a manner reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark...
...independent power producers and middlemen who rule the wholesale market. To reduce any chance of foul play, the New York State public service commission is considering the implementation of a temporary, $150 per megawatt-hour wholesale price cap. Producers say the cap will discourage investment, but commission chairman Maureen Helmer dismisses that as an idle threat. "The market here will always be one of the most lucrative to build--I can't just see people walking away...
...start-ups and hospitals to a Blockbuster Video store and a BP Amoco gas station. According to estimates, 10% to 20% of new power will be distributed by 2010, so it's no wonder that heavyweights like Honeywell and Ingersoll-Rand are moving into the burgeoning business. Still, Maureen Helmer, chairman of the New York State public service commission, insists that "this is just a transitional measure." Perhaps. But for utilities grappling with NIMBYism and small businesses worried about an electricity crunch, it could be a long-term remedy...