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...early 1970s comic and cartoon that inspired Devilman, a CGI-heavy movie due out in the fall, helped create a template for the fanged and tentacled demons that populate Japanese pop culture today. Devilman is the alter ego of mild-mannered schoolboy Akira Fudo, who becomes possessed by a long-dormant demonic force. The story details his struggle to bring that force under control and use it to fight other, more malevolent, demons. Like Casshern, virtually every frame in Devilman blends live action and computer graphics. Judging by segments that have been completed, Devilman will be a lush, Gothic-flavored...
...Japan's oldest and best-loved comics, which ran from 1956-66 and was also made into a cartoon. The title character is a remote-controlled robot who looks like the Wizard of Oz's Tin Man on growth hormones. When the remote is in the hands of a schoolboy named Shotaro Kaneda?the story's real hero?the Iron Man is an unstoppable defender of justice, whooshing in ? la Mighty Mouse to foil villainous schemes. There's plenty of mayhem but never any real menace, and when the dust settles, the Iron Man has miraculously set things straight...
...award, since they were shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested by a priest in the '60s. The theme of child abuse could be treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more Cannes films this year - but that wouldn't suit Almodóvar's cine-showmanship. The story spins backward four times before landing...
...killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. One of the men in custody apparently has an erection under his blanket; a soldier swats it and says, "Ali Baba has a hard-on," while another G.I. shouts, in a schoolboy's merry derision, "You touched his dick!" Toward the end of the film, Moore returns home to Flint to grieve with the parents of a dead soldier, then goes to Washington in a quixotic attempt to badger Congress into volunteering their sons and daughters for military service. Fahrenheit 9/11...
...bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which no one had yet deciphered. Unlocking hieroglyphics...