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This leaves Sideways and Million Dollar Baby, the year’s requisite realist duo. Both feature a raw, devastating naturalism; they are far and away the most mature offerings on the Oscar docket. But while Ray and Neverland stay too distant from the viewer, these pictures cut too close to the bone. Sideways is an apt parable of its time, a tale of failure, loss, and botched hedonism. That mix is a bit too real in the era of outsourcing and Dennis Kozlowski. And for Academy voters in Hollywood, the casual alcoholism and bungled love affairs could seem more...
...culture. Roughly ninety percent of the film’s cast was comprised of native islanders—many of whom have never seen a movie theater, let alone acted in a feature—and the incorporation of such a real, Rotuman presence lends the film a deeply raw, affecting richness. The movie plays like a kind of cultural window, presenting to the world a vision of life in the distant Pacific from the very imaginations of those who live...
...lethargy about economic reform. During the past three years, demand has run well ahead of supply. After 14 years of output growth, the nation's spare capacity has been used up: there are shortages of skilled workers in a number of industries, particularly construction, and the price of raw materials and wages is rising. For instance, in Queensland electrical workers at Energex and Ergon secured a 31% pay rise over three years. Unless spending slows, inflationary pressures can spread across the economy, inviting a harsher interest-rate response, and lower rates of growth - a waste of potential and income...
Beyond the raw acting skills of the cast, the HPT production is also visually stunning. Costumes could not be more aptly designed, though even the show’s script includes references that poke fun at the outrageousness of HPT costumes, which tend to be designed according to stereotypes. Indeed, at one point in the show, Gay Caballero tells his partner-in-crime, an Asian railroad maven named Ho Down, that she looks “like a cocktail waitress for the Viet Cong.” She responds equally critically, commenting that he looks “like...
...images in the exhibition capture the intensity of change in the Chinese economy," says co-curator Wu Hung. "The artists make their works very quickly, so everything has a raw sense of immediacy and energy." Raw is the operative word. For a portrait of performance artist Zhang Huan, photographer Rong Rong required Zhang to stand in a dirty toilet block for an hour, smeared with honey and covered with flies. "The art is so dynamic because in China everything moves so fast," says Wu, "and art captures this sense of social transformation." Can't make the Seattle showing? "Between Past...