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...hopes and big hype (including a cover story I wrote for TIME Asia). On opening day, the smarter critics slapped Geisha out of its reverie, and no one knows if the Motion Picture Academy members, for whom it was made, will ignore the reviews and give it lots of Oscar nominations. But as one of the movie?s admirers, I?m sticking to my story: that this far-East fairy tale, about the geisha Cinderella (Zhang Ziyi), her wicked stepsister (Gong Li), her fairy godmother (Michelle Yeoh) and the faraway prince (Ken Watanabe) she dreams of, is a delicate, robust...
...baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his patented chicken dance. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles, Streisand jokes and familial reconciliation. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which extends Park?s Oscar-winning stop-motion short films to feature length, is about a creature that terrorizes townsfolk by eating their prize vegetables. With their usual precision and fey wit, Park and his Aardman colleagues have created a horror-romance that owes as much to Jane Austen's social comedies...
...their doorstep. Although they hire her as a secretary/receptionist, sparks fly between her and Leo. All seems well until, despite their best efforts, the show opens and accidentally becomes a runaway success.The Broadway production improved immeasurably upon its source material—the 1968 Best Original Screenplay Oscar winner starring Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel—in large part to the chemistry between Broderick and Lane. But now, after the original film and the stage version, the new film is, basically, the Broadway show caught on tape.Susan Stroman is a master at stage directing and won the Best Director...
...comedy albums--starting with his 1974 masterpiece That Nigger's Crazy--were best sellers and won five Grammys. He pioneered a new genre, the feature-length comedy concert, with his 1979 film Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. He was a hit in more traditional films too, winning an Oscar nomination for his nervy performance as Piano Man in the Billie Holiday biography Lady Sings the Blues, pairing with Gene Wilder in buddy comedies like Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, and showing his dramatic range as a doomed autoworker in Paul Schrader's Blue Collar...
...made a musical for 35 years," says Chan. "Audiences wouldn't go to them." But the lure of shooting in mainland China for the first time was enticing, and Chan saw an opportunity to make a modern musical without compromising dramatic complexity. With Morgan, the producer behind Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby, and a $10 million budget, Chan assembled a starry cast: Taiwanese-Japanese icon Takeshi Kaneshiro, rising mainland actress Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung, the one Heavenly King of Canto-pop who can really sing. But would audiences accept a big-budget Asian film without a flying kick...