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...film is that rare bird: a true tricontinental production. Li and his favorite collaborator, action choreographer Corey Yuen, represent Asia; Fonda and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen fly the Stars and Stripes. But the secret ingredient is Luc Besson, the French auteur (Nikita, The Fifth Element) who produced Dragon, wrote the story, set the dark, violent tone, signed French music-video ace Chris Nahon to direct and chose Karyo, the angular menacer who shone in Nikita, to play the spuming villain. The film's other star is Paris. Like any self-respecting thriller set in a famous city, Dragon stages action...
...cigarette lighter in Strangers on a Train is more memorable than the image of Cézanne's apple, French director Jean-Luc Godard wrote, it's because Hitchcock was "the greatest creator of forms of the 20th century, and it's forms that tell us finally what lies at the bottom of things." Forms were Hitchcock's fetish, and he was a master at etching an image into his audience's memory. Movie fans will immediately recognize the show's small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed...
...Jean-Luc Godard is a mere 70, but he has been playing the role of the crotchety hermit-sage for decades. His Elogie de l'amour (In Praise of Love) is in two parts - the first, in black-and-white, a notebook of visual and verbal provocations. ("The question isn't whether man will survive but whether he deserves to.") The second part, shot digitally in carnival colors, concerns an old couple whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven...
...should see me now, looking like Jean-Luc Picard that time when he was captured by the dreaded Borg and turned into one of them: half-man, half-machine. Part of my face and most of the top of my head are covered by evil-looking electronic gadgetry; there is more scary stuff strapped to my left wrist and around my waist. Getting into character, I wander around a giant shopping mall in Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C., frightening the living daylights out of small children. It's all I can do to stop myself from intoning, like the captain...
...farming as the culprit. And in Brussels, bureaucrats were warning that they couldn't afford another crisis: the E.U. has already spent $1 billion to bail out farmers suffering from the bse-induced plunge in beef consumption. "If [foot-and-mouth] does spread to the Continent," says Commission spokesman Luc Veron, "the money would be gone before we could write a check...