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Actors thrive on this approach too. The production attracted such names as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin (who play a country-music sister act and really sing), teen tabloid queen Lindsay Lohan (Streep's daughter), Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, the private-eye character on Companion) and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly (Companion's singing cowboys, Dusty and Lefty...
...Germany is Kerr's protagonist in four gripping tales. The latest, Hitler's Peace, is a cunning what-if riff on the little-remembered 1943 Big Three conference to set the rules for German surrender. Yes, it's actually thrilling. And it will make you rush to read Berlin Noir (out in paper), a masterly trio of mysteries starring ex-cop Bernie Gunther as he struggles with notions of justice in 1930's Germany, soaked in the seamy authenticity of Hitler's world...
SMOOTH SIPPING This week guitar god Carlos Santana will unveil Santana DVX, a sparkling blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay he created with Mumm Napa...
Director Wong Kar-wai is an art-house fave for his slo-mo studies of Hong Kong's lost souls. But the secret reason for the success of his avant-noir films is simple: he's the world's most romantic filmmaker. His iridescent images detail love's anguish and rapture. Great-looking women throw themselves at cool guys, and the men often step aside. Love, the playwright Terry Johnson wrote, is something you fall in. Wong's films make art out of that vertiginous feeling. They soar as their characters plummet...
...there any other kind?) came to animation with Otomo's film version of his manga series--and, presto, haute anime proclaimed itself to the world. This psychedelic eye chart is set in 2019, the same year as Blade Runner, and paints its Neo-Tokyo with even denser splashes of noir on neon. The mix of outlaw attitude and brain-breaking speculation may convince you that the Wachowskis were channeling Akira when they wrote The Matrix. The special-edition DVD restores the original film in all its gaudio-visual splendor...