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...world cinema is that it's way too austere. To the untutored eye, seeing Hou's Good Men, Good Women or Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees may indeed be like watching the most beautiful paint dry. But not every movie in the world has to run to the Hollywood pulse; some films can be contemplative and complex. Besides, Americans have also proved indifferent to the vital, popular film industry in India, with its delirious musical melodramas, and in Hong Kong, whose films have enough violent action to put Arnold and Sly out of business. Exoticism, artistry, hurtling pace--these...
...Bard’s death, and yet there is no record that anyone conducted an interview with her to glean clues about her father. With so much about the Bard’s personality forever shrouded in mystery, the life of Shakespeare is an “E! True Hollywood Story” that can never be made...
...Unlike his elder Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Beethoven does not hold the honor of having a Literature and Arts-B core course named after him. But he will soon be featured in a Hollywood biopic starring Ed Harris. And today, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Parish Church on 3 Church Street, Morris will seek to bring the long-dead Beethoven to life...
...while legendary films have landed on its screen (from “Casablanca” to “Jaws” through “The Godfather” and “Lolita”), its mission has always been one to show more than just mainstream Hollywood movies. How long may it be until that audience doesn’t have the Brattle Theater as choice for entertainment any more...
...ridiculous plot is another source of boredom, since Black doesn’t seem to care about it anyway; he just uses it as a vehicle for a bunch of “that’s so Hollywood!” jokes, most of which involve dead women. In one of the few genuinely funny scenes, Downey shoots a thug while hanging from the arm of a dead girl whose coffin is stuck on an L.A. overpass sign...