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...with a clatter. ''I suppose you could call it foreign.'' ''Why do you have to drink a foreign beverage? Why do you have so many foreign books? Why are you so foreign altogether? In every room in this house there are imported things, but there is not a single portrait of our beloved Great Leader.'' Outside the kitchen, I saw a man who had not been with the Red Guards the night before. I could tell by his air of self-assurance that he was a party official. ''I'm a liaison officer of the municipal government,'' he said...
...Sometimes, the relationship turns parasitic and British talent gets sucked into the Hollywood machine, never to return home. But most of the time, there's give and take. The U.S. system gives some funding or a distribution deal, and, in return, it gets a good story. Kevin Macdonald's portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland was made with mostly British funding, giving him the freedom to make his movie his way. "If I tried to do The Last King of Scotland through the U.S. studio system, it would be a very different film...
...three pages halfway through Don DeLillo's opus on the American cultural landscape of the 20th century, Underworld. So what's all the fuss about? The movie documents a sex, drugs and rock n' roll party that's over despite most not wanting to admit it. It presents a portrait of the band tired of touring and feigning interest, of the boring, naked groupies, of life for a few lads who are already blas? about getting anything they could ask for. When the band isn't playing music - either onstage or in impromptu tourplane jams, where they do seem happy...
...This long passage will doubtless astound the American audience, since director Andrei Kravchuck, in his first feature, is unblinking in his portrait of ordinary life in the former Soviet Union. The landscape is uniformly grim and tumbledown, most of the citizens of have honed their survival skills to a nastily jagged edge. At no point does little Vanya eat a meal or walk down a street that would meet even the most minimal nutritional or aesthetic standards of even the poorest American child...
...range of photographic practice, from photojournalism to portraiture, curator Crombie brings together a remarkably coherent vision. Haunting the show are spectral presences, from the dapperly besuited Aboriginal gent of the '50s that Brenda L. Croft retrieved from her late father's shoebox of slides, and Darren Siwes' ghostly self-portrait projected onto a Henson-like night-time landscape, to vacated urban spaces in which we are left to trace subtle signs of life-whether it be in a ray of sunlight retreating from Annie Hogan's Brisbane rental house, or the silvery spray of Scott Redford's Gold Coast urinal...