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...mannerly, orderly life that most of us try to live. Tiptoeing through the plush parlors of old Manhattan, the film finds ecstasy in the kissing of a lady's wrist, and heartbreak in a sigh. This, then, is Scorsese at his most daring: he has composed a tragic opera, sung in whispers...
...Farewell My Concubine To make this show-biz epic, director Chen Kaige may have risked his professional life. The Chinese authorities first banned the film, then allowed its release after deleting scenes that depicted Maoist torture and pigheadedness. But this half-century panorama of the Peking Opera is at heart a swirling entertainment -- outsize emotions drawn on a vast, colorful canvas -- with a seductive, star-is-born turn by Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung...
...need to know how to “read and write” to understand that fundamental nature of man. R’s most recent opus, the 12-chapter “Trapped In the Closet” series, challenged fans more than ever with its absurd soap opera plotline. Many people dismissed the experiment, which beneath the surface is a profound meditation on sexuality and fidelity in the 21st century. But I kept listening, and Kelz broadened my horizons once again. He opened up my closet door, moved aside the skeletons and Air Force Ones, and made...
...arrogance can be forgiven. Reared in the rarefied domain of theater and opera (he assisted Neil Armfield's acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have...
DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, commercial artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...