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...Done with shopping? For sustenance, head to newcomer Mangold Lokal, tel: (49-40) 2786 0248, where a mainly vegetarian menu and minimalist interior await. Or there's 4X Gastraum, tel: (49-40) 4318 8432, an inventive seafood restaurant (and brainchild of one of Germany's emerging culinary stars, J?rgen Zimmerst?dt) that is rightly the talk of the town. If you want to fully appreciate Marktstrasse's progress from grunge ghetto to fabulous faubourg, just book a table here...
...finally, the born-again vindication. James Mangold's mostly excellent Walk the Line is designed as a Christian epic. In this particular it diverges from last year's exemplary musical bio-pic, Ray, which depicted Ray Charles as a roiling spirit who conquered his demons on his own. This movie's Johnny Cash - in a scary-good turn by Joaquin Phoenix - is a haunted man who is redeemed by a good woman, June Carter...
...credit for Phoenix's performance has to go to Mangold, who has always been good at finding the bleak melodrama in taciturn souls: Pruitt Taylor Vince's short-order cook in Heavy, Sly Stallone's tired sheriff in Cop Land. If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously. John's father, Ray Cash (Robert Patrick), is a one-note ogre who blames John for surviving his more adored younger brother, and whose condemnation of the singer lasts way longer than...
...school after ninth grade and finished his teens traveling in Latin America. When he returned to acting five years later, he earned raves as the mumbling killer in To Die For and an Oscar nod for his weaselly turn as Commodus in Gladiator. Walk the Line director James Mangold says both performances were seared into his memory. He noted that Phoenix looked like the young Johnny Cash, but he was more intrigued by another resemblance. "That incredible vulnerability and masculinity that James Dean had," says Mangold, "Joaq has the same thing. His face is complicated, and it's hard...
...Mangold, who worked extensively with Cash on the Walk the Line script (see box), could not imagine doing the movie without Phoenix. The actor, in turn, could not imagine passing on the role. "I had been desperate to disappear into a character completely," he says. Mangold believed that for the film to be authentic, the actors needed to play and sing, not rely on looped music. "With all due respect, I don't think of Natalie Wood's performance in West Side Story as one of the hallmarks of musical cinema," says Mangold. (As for Ray, 2004's biopic about...