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...shoehorn TV and film celebrities into a production, as with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver in Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is simply awful. The best screen-to-stage adaptations - like Disney's The Lion King, which uses puppetry to inspired effect - are reinvented and freed by the live medium...
...love to add another trophy to the one he took home for Gandhi (1982). But his ambitions are bigger than any industry prize. He's on a mission to restore the tradition of tragedy - think Shakespeare or Sophocles - in a world fond of "illusory and bogus" happy endings. His medium may be film, but Kingsley, 60, prefers the label "storyteller." "And when I use the word storyteller," he says, "I use it in the ancient tradition - one who excites, who shows, who heals." There seems to be a lot more hurting than healing in House of Sand and Fog, which...
...office became distinguished for its professional work. A 1988 project in the Radcliffe Quadrangle, a series of mesh screens that became “ice walls” when the temperature dropped below freezing, was a result of innovative research Van Valkenburgh conducted to understand ice as a potential medium in landscape architecture. The ice walls were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Light Architecture” exhibition...
...TIME: Maqbool is new territory for Bollywood, isn't it? Khan: This is new, yes. Usually in Bollywood we just film dialogue, which is not really exploring film as a medium. But I'm lucky to be part of a period in which a new generation is coming up with fresh ideas and I get to do things that interest...
When London-based Atlantis Investment Management launched a fund in medium-sized Chinese companies last March, the fund's size was a modest $15 million. Eleven months later, the stocks in its portfolio have doubled and the inflow of new money from eager investors has swelled its value to $116 million. "Europeans want to get exposure to what's happen-ing in China," says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly...