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...bowl. He has cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print of the Mona Lisa; a pair of Japanese paintings face off against a profile of Lenin. They're mementos of the director's many trips around the global film-festival circuit, reminders that Adoor's movies, like his home, have a local heart but an international soul...
...hectare Chitranjali Film Studios - which Adoor helped found, like almost everything else that has to do with cinema in Kerala - we discover that the first print of his autobiographical masterpiece, Man of the Story, has disintegrated in the tropical heat. Adoor shakes his head and laughs gently. "When you see the print degrade like that, you realize what you do is ephemeral," he says. "It's something you spend so much effort on, but it dissolves so quickly...
...next day we screen his latest, Shadow Kill. The print has no English subtitles, but Adoor provides a running translation, whispering the laconic dialogue in my ear. "A film like Shadow Kill demands many viewings to be understood," he says. An antideath-penalty parable with the pacing of a Greek tragedy, Shadow Kill is also visually rich, steeped in the verdant colors of the postmonsoon tropics. A veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer...
...weren’t sure how successful it would be, so we’d only told the box office to print out 600 tickets,” Morris said. “But once they sold out, people just started coming to Mather looking to buy tickets...
Sitaraman said that interest in publishing the work was initially difficult to find, because the market was glutted with Sept. 11 retrospectives, but IUniverse Publishing agreed to print the book...