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...Helping translate that dream beyond Ramingining time - and the reason for the Rome clock at Vertigo Productions - is Italian producer Domenico Procacci. First brought together on De Heer's breakthrough Bad Boy Bubby (1993), "he and Domenico got on like a house on fire," recalls Currie. A darkly comic fable about an idiot savant's reintroduction to the world, which we see and hear through his ears and eyes, Bad Boy took out the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and set in motion one of the film world's most unusual partnerships. Without Procacci's investment...
...times painful to watch - but then again, subjects like this don't often get a look-in. The same could be said for Dance Me to My Song (1998), in which De Heer explores the emotional and sexual life of a woman with cerebral palsy. De Heer says his Italian connection "has made it easier to make the sorts of films I like to make." Which brings us back to the other wall clock: Adelaide. At first it might seem strange that Australia's riskiest filmmaker should choose to reside in this relatively sleepy hollow. But as with his seemingly...
...Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China in the next six months. Meanwhile, Italian firm Tecnica, the world's largest ski-boot manufacturer, arrived in China last fall; the company has already sold 1,300 sets of boots and bindings to a resort near Beijing and is working on contracts to sell 1,000 more. "The European and U.S. markets are not growing that...
...third-generation Mexican-American immigrants speak only English. And yet even mainstream media tend to make the mistake of equating Latino with Spanish speaking. One of our columnists, Gregory Rodriguez, likes to make the point that nobody would ever think of scolding Rudy Giuliani for not speaking fluent Italian, but everyone seems surprised that the Latino mayor of Los Angeles speaks broken Spanish, but they shouldn...
...Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China in the next six months. Meanwhile, Italian firm Tecnica, the world's largest ski-boot manufacturer, arrived in China last fall; the company has already sold 1,300 sets of boots and bindings to a resort near Beijing and is working on contracts to sell 1,000 more. "The European and U.S. markets are not growing that...