Word: pascale
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...sunny afternoon in Paris' Latin Quarter, Jean-Pascal Croux stands on the sidewalk outside the Cinoches Cinemas, a modest movie house with a run-down box office and two small theaters that open directly onto the sidewalk. He's one of a dozen moviegoers waiting to see In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai's lush tale about two people who suspect their spouses of adultery. Produced in Hong Kong and released three years ago, the movie is one of 13 playing on the theater's two screens. "I've heard it's visually beautiful," says Croux...
...Champo hosts all-nighter festivals that begin at midnight and conclude with a light breakfast. Even so, it seems like the saga of the independent art houses may be on its last reel. The survival of revival cinemas ultimately depends on the dedication of film lovers like Jean-Pascal Croux. "These kinds of movie theaters are irreplaceable," he says. Too few Parisians appear to agree
...sequence—a synchronized, expressionistic movement sequence set to the Lachrymose of Mozart’s Requiem—should serve as the culmination of the characters’ personal exploration but instead deteriorates into a stagy and contrived presentation. The finale begs the question as to why Pascal felt the need to aestheticize the organic elements of the drama and to use a grandiose, classical score to drill in the point of an already self-evident tragedy...
...play, The Dybbuk, is Sack’s version of the script by Julia Pascal. It is about five prisoners in a ghetto who perform a folk play to distract themselves from certain death. Sack says his rendition of the play will utilize “cutting edge ensemble staging techniques...
Here's an irony: in Hollywood's executive suites, women are nearing power parity. Pascal once nurtured such films as A League of Their Own and Little Women (both with female directors). Last year her big winners were the action films Spider-Man and XXX. That's not a change of heart, just a coincidence. "Recently Sherry Lansing [at Paramount] and Nina Jacobson [Disney] and Stacey Snider [Universal] have had a lot of luck with films featuring female protagonists," says Pascal. "But we all make movies we believe can be commercial." Lansing adds a caveat: "You can't help being...