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...falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent and tenuous moments of being alive with startling beauty. It won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and was the inspiration for the Hollywood remake City of Angels. German with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archive...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to Tokyo and transitory friendship with her newest film, Lost in Translation. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Suntory whiskey to the natives. There he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer who spends much of her day staring out her window in hopes of somehow finding herself within the city’s skyline. The pair discover Tokyo culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking...
Cross the wires of the Burton myths, as Hollywood studios often do, and--it's alive!--you get Frankenstein's multiplex monster, a developmentally arrested auteur capable of turning out an almost consistently profitable brand of kooky horror. Naturally, Burton loathes these myths. "You get pigeonholed very easily in Hollywood," he says, "even if you do something they were leery of to begin with. I try not to think about it, but, oh, it kind of drives me out of my mind...
Crowe didn't just take Hollywood by storm; he took it by tornado, hurricane and tsunami. After reading Josh Tyrangiel's fine cover story, I admire Crowe even more than before. EVAN DALE SANTOS Adelanto, Calif...
...From its debut in January 1943 to its final appearance just four days before his death, "Kup's Column"--often reported from his de facto office, a booth in the Pump Room at Chicago's Omni Ambassador East Hotel--chronicled, with a gentle, often adoring touch, the lives of Hollywood starlets, local politicos, tycoons and princes...