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...festival's 1994 tribute to India's director Mani Ratnam. This year, Handling is excited by the richness of Israeli films - "There's a kind of explosion of creativity there, and it's about time" - while Cowan finds a consolidation of merit from other nations. "The rich are getting richer," he says. "The Korean and Argentine cinemas continue to be intriguing. The Germans and Australians have been on fire for a few years...
...this movie's many pleasures. Farce is an ever-endangered movie species, nowadays occurring mostly in movies intended for adolescents (Something About Mary, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up ) and mostly in a slightly adulterated form. These movies tend to be more sexually alert than classic farces and richer in bathroom humor than they need to be. They are almost a guilty pleasure for anyone over the age of 30, which does not stop me from skulking off to see them. But with Death at a Funeral, it's particularly and perversely pleasurable to see actual grownups defying modern...
Singh doesn't see it that way. "Urban development in India ... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world," he says. The trend is being driven by macro forces. As the country becomes richer and more urban (the number of people living in cities will rise to 461 million by 2025, from 286 million today, according to the Asian Development Bank), demand for housing should go right on booming...
...onrush of credit cards in China. Silence Chen, an account executive with advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing, tells the group he recently received six different cards in the mail. "Each one has a credit limit of 10,000," he says, laughing. "So suddenly I'm 60,000 yuan richer!" The talk turns to China's online shopping business, before that is interrupted by the arrival of razor clams, chili squid and deep-fried grouper...
...left unchanged, such policies could exacerbate China's rich-poor divide and create conditions for tumultuous social upheaval. The test for China - as the Me generation grows bigger, richer and more powerful - will be whether it begins to push for the social and political reforms that are necessary to ensure China's long-term prosperity and stability. How likely is that? Though they're not exactly clamoring for free elections, members of the new middle class have shown a willingness to stand up to authority when their interests are threatened. Last October police in Beijing attempted to enforce rules limiting...