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...people handling security, emergency medical services and traffic control. And what if the flame goes out (as it did in the hands of Robert Zemeckis, director of Forrest Gump)? Well, the torch is just a torch; the mother flame from Greece travels close behind in a well-protected lantern, ready to relight snuffed standards whenever necessary. Should you want to keep your commemorative torch, you need...
...FOREIGN FILM IS CAPTIVATING--say the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern--within a few minutes the subtitles melt away. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer...
...time on his electric clock, Packwood realized there was a power outage. Worried that he might not have adequate light to groom himself for the morning talk shows just hours away, the Senator searched in vain for a flashlight. In a closet he found a Coleman lantern, only to discover that the glass was broken. Further gropings turned up a second Coleman, but Packwood fumbled in the dark, spilling kerosene. Finally, an hour after beginning his quest for light, Packwood produced a flicker--at which point, all his exertions were for naught. The electricity had come back...
...reel world, Western cinephiles have a three-China policy. They embrace mainland dramas by artists like Chen and Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). They are beguiled by the Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
...Crimson reached Kenneth Anger in his hotel room in Chicago last Thursday as he was preparing to come to Harvard for this weekend's "Magick Lantern Show" at the Harvard Film Archive...