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...Geisha” boasts an acting team of international superstars like Zhang, Michelle Yeoh (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”), and Gong Li (“The Emperor and the Assassin”), talented big-name producers like Steven Spielberg and Gary Barber, and the plot line of the bestselling novel by Arthur S. Golden ’78. The resulting expectations are completely satisfied by the screen adaptation. The film opens in a small fishing village of Japan, in which young Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo) is sold to a geisha house in the city. There she begins...
...road trip through the Outback? Writer/director Greg McLean brings to the screen the “based on a true story” account of Sidney resident Ben (Nathan Phillips), and British tourists Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi). Although the camera work is certainly appealing and the plot gripping, the movie ultimately seems like an Australian version of “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie kicks off with wild party footage like that of a teen comedy, but rapidly turns into an exhilarating thriller. The trio drives along endless dirt roads until they...
...TIME: The 2002 plot to blow up seven embassies in Singapore using truck bombs?our sense is that you were taken completely by surprise. LEE: Of course. How could we, in this most cosmopolitan and open of cities, where 15% Muslim Malays are completely mixed up with Chinese, Indians, Eurasians and others, go to English-language schools, do similar jobs, live in similar homes, produce 30-plus would-be jihadists...
...Some South Koreans have seen this controversy as a plot by the outside world to keep South Korea from getting ahead in biotechnology. What do you think? I don't see it that...
...designer Eric P.C. Phelan ’07, successfully evokes the surroundings that could trap these women and also, at the same time, allows enough space for the actors to be constant in action, breathing life into the play’s dialogue-propelled plot. The direction also stages the action to subtly imply its context of the character’s social conditions; a privileged Desdemona constantly lounges while the household-supporting wife Emilia toils away and Bianca freely enters and exits as a woman of her own will and self-defined pleasure...