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...Magicians, from South Korea?s Song Il-gon, is a 95-min. film, shifting from past to present, interior to outdoors, and achieved in one continuous take. (Or did I spot a cheating black spot at 48 minutes?) The story is about love, male bonding, regret and pop music, but the camera stunt is the main reason to stick around. And if you want a feature-length movie done in one exhilaratingly elaborate take, get Aleksandr Sokurov?s Russian...
SOUNDS LIKE CUP SPIRIT No World Cup is complete without a cheesy theme tune to bring the crowd together. For Germany '06, it's R&B diva Toni Braxton and quartet Il Divo's sticky-sweet Time of Our Lives. Get out your lighters...
...somewhat more human process may eventually grant John Paul another notable title: The Great. He was already endowed with the title "Magnus" by Rome's La Sapienza University in 2003, while top Vatican Cardinals and even Benedict himself have repeatedly referred to him as "Il Grande" Pope John Paul II. There is no official Vatican procedure for bestowing the title, explained Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican correspondent for Il Giornale daily. "It's something that becomes invested over time," he said. So for the most impassioned followers of the Polish pontiff, there is nothing holding you back from calling him John...
...knowing the boundaries of melodrama earned him best directing honors at Cannes for his 1993 Caro Diario (Dear Diary) and the 2001 Palme d'Or for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room). This year, he is again among the favorites to win the top prize for Il Caimano, a multilayered portrait of a disintegrating marriage, the movie business and that certain billionaire politician. Potential praise at Cannes aside, Moretti has spent much of the past five years denouncing the very man whose presence inspired his film. Il Caimano debuted in March amid Berlusconi's bitter campaign against Romano...
...first act in 16 days. Seeing the show today, smiling at some jokes, groaning at others, you may ask, "It took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time...