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If you think there's nothing but rubbish on the Internet, you're not a film director. First there was Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu, then Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, two films inspired by stories on the Net. Three years ago, Korean director Kwak Jae-yong...
Audiences intuitively understood the language of film dance, knew what it meant as a skill and as an expression of emotion. For moviegoers, moving pictures of moving figures could be so ... moving. Poetry in motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the...
What?s interesting about Kelly is that he wasn?t an imitation of the older man; he wasn?t the 40s Fred. He was the anti-Astaire. As Kelly himself said, in 1975: "Fred represents the aristocracy when he dances. And I represent the proletarian." As TIME?s Richard Schickel...
Think history can provide easy solutions? Think again. Our distant ancestors sometimes dealt with romantic disappointment by leaving home to become monks and nuns. More recent generations would phone their exes dozens of times and hang up immediately. The decline of convents and the advent of caller ID have eradicated...
Unfortunately, there’s no magic pill for romantic recovery, though some of my colleagues speak well of Valium. The humanist tradition sanctions only the passage of time, the discipline of meditation and perhaps the vigorous consumption of chocolate.