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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those musings - thoroughly shocking accounts of a film production brought to the brink - have been converted into the book Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo. (Listen to TIME's full interview with Herzog in the audio player to the left.) (Read "Too Risky for Hollywood," a profile on Herzog, the world's most dangerous director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Werner Herzog | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...days than 2006's Ice Age: The Meltdown did in its first three. It didn't help that Dawn of the Dinosaurs was the summer's fifth movie whose cast of characters included at least one prehistoric beast. (Can you name the other four?*) It may be time for Hollywood to go back to spacemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age vs. Transformers: It's a Draw! | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

...world sensation after his wife convinces him to build a sculpture around her aborted fetus. Suddenly he's besieged with commissions - but where to find more dead babies? As slick as it is sick, the movie could be Anwar's calling card for international employment, if only Hollywood moguls wanted something out of their own narrow range. The Forbidden Door is one more NYAFF example of what movies could be but rarely dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...flowering of interest, melancholy and remorse is common at the sudden early passing of a superstar - James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana - whose life is marked by achievement and controversy. Jackson's death and commercial resurrection are eerily like those of Elvis Presley, dead at 42. One Hollywood cynic, learning that Presley had just died, commented, "Good career move." Cutting but prophetic: Elvis sold far more records after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page a conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Michael Jackson's Legacy | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...Lest you think that there is something very cute and Japanese about the productions, it should be noted that Takarazuka derives most of its inspiration from foreign sources - vaudeville, Radio City Music Hall and Hollywood musicals. In their stylization, codified roles, transvestite stars, rigid themes (which in Takarazuka's case is almost always boy and girl fall in love, conflict ensues and is resolved) and combinations of dance, drama and chorus, there are obvious similarities between Takarazuka and the traditional Japanese performing arts of Kabuki and Noh theater. But these tales of chaste love are told through adaptations of Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takarazuka: Putting On the Glitz In Japanese Theater | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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