Word: mythos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dragon audience and features some awfully familiar flying kicks, we have to be grateful that it avoids the cello solemnity of that blockbuster. Rather than high art, director Peter Pau aims for the high spirits of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films, with their roguish heroes, cultured antagonists and mytho-archaeological quests. Still, at least Spielberg threw in the occasional Arabic subtitle, thereby adding a bit of real atmosphere?a quality The Touch sadly lacks despite its $20 million budget. Pau and Yeoh may have hoped for a slick internationalism with their English-only policy and generic plot. Instead, what...
...redeemed through Sport; these films are Hollywood’s equivalent of a motivational speaker. If movies could be scaled in terms of Magical Moments per frame (MM/f), baseball films would surely top the chart, for the sport, like no other, has long been infused with the kind of mytho-poetic connotations that make English professors go weak at the knees...
...film, however, Weber seems conspicuously, almost alarmingly, distant. Throughout his own “autobiographical documentary,” Weber gives himself the un-intrusive role of guide and narrator and makes only the rarest appearances in front of his own camera. His running commentary, now casually reflective, now mytho-poetical, reveals his sense of marked detachment from the world he examines. “We sometimes photograph what we could never be,” he sighs in wistful voiceover...