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...social activist - he often gives free shows in deprived areas - Gil got his first taste of politics 15 years ago, when he was elected city councilor in Salvador for the Green Party. He enjoyed that experience, but never contemplated entering federal government because, he says, "politics is a martial art, and I'm more cut out to be a diplomat than a politician." But Brazilian politicians may be special. "Maybe power doesn't invest as much in people here," Gil muses. "They maintain their humanity, their cordiality. Brazil is different in that human warmth is essential and abundant." Now that...
...which assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, an old-time Zionist hero if ever there was one, heaped praise on Mitzna. The price for this return to Zionism is being paid by Israel's 1.2 million Arab citizens. During Israel's first two decades, the country's Arabs lived under martial law. Sharon's not there yet, but he's overseeing a divisive crackdown on the Arabs, who prefer to be called "Palestinians inside Israel," almost as much of a throwback as Lahav's songs. Even before the crackdown, life was tough for Israel's Arabs. The 10 Israeli communities with...
...jour and, on Belfast's mean streets, Protestants and Catholics were spilling one another's blood in a replay of the New York City Irish-Anglo gang wars of the 1860s, which Scorsese was itching to dramatize. Then Star Wars changed the landscape of the epic from our own martial planet to a galaxy far, far away. Today when audiences go into the past, they want fantasy. They're not looking to pay for history lessons...
...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...quarter-century, from early Bruce Lee to late Jackie Chan, martial arts was the pulse to which Hong Kong films ticked and kicked. Those were expressions of the industry's vital adolescence. Hero shows how the same vitality can serve a thoughtful, resonant, mainland maturity. This is a story of noble insurgence against noble fidelity, and of the ways love may find its fulfillment only in death. Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in "mere" genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece...