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...idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick Hou, governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands. "Australia and New Zealand don't have enough workers to pick fruit and work on farms. It's a perfect fit. If the respective governments could find a way to do it, it would be a win-win solution." The Australian farming lobby agrees...
...Paul Verhoeven (Spetters) joined a century-long exodus of European talent to Hollywood (where he made Robocop and Showgirls). Denmark's Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) stayed in Europe but made films in English. That leaves a new generation of world masters--Greece's Theo Angelopoulos, Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-hsien, Iran's Abbas Kiarostami--that is largely unknown to Americans. "The auteurs are there," says Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. "The American marketplace is just not accepting them...
...common rap on modern 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...
...Hou Wenzhuo Director, Empowerment and Rights Institute, Beijing I have been in trouble lately because of my work promoting the rights of individuals. Police have searched the offices of my institute and confined me to my home for 10 days during the recent trip to Beijing of the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner. But my problems are minor compared to those of many Chinese, and I think Presidents Bush and Hu should strengthen their dialogue on human rights?especially to highlight the persecution of people who come to Beijing seeking the redress of wrongs committed by local officials...
...some observers, the list of 20 films in competition this year for the Palme d'Or - the Golden Palm, Cannes' top prize - may represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...