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...million in U.S. theaters. Ask most Americans about foreign films and they'll say they don't go to the movies to read. (These are the same people addicted to the running ribbons of copy on the news channels and the glut of statistics flashed on the screen during sports events.) In a way, foreign films are back where they were 60 years ago. They are patronized by a small coterie of educated Americans, and by a significant slice of first- and second-generation foreigners: the Indian diaspora that still loves its Bollywood musicals...
...obscure, and I call essential. Who knows what the Essential Art House movies of the next 50 years will be? Nobody knows. But we can be pretty sure that we won't see them in theaters like the Brattle or the 55th Street Playhouse, let alone your 24-screen Googolplex. The kids of the future, knocked for a loop by their own, 21st century Seventh Seal, will see it on a TV or computer screen...
...Criterion's package is particularly rich with extras. In addition to footage from the 1941 Academy Award ceremony, where Rebecca picked up Oscars for Best Picture and Cinematography, the disc's extras include three one-hour radio adaptations, among them one by Orson Welles, and footage of the screen tests for Joan Fontaine, who won the starring role of the second Mrs. de Winter, opposite Laurence Olivier, as well as for also-rans Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young and Olivier's then-wife Vivien Leigh...
...have arrived. Indian cell-phone carriers have featured kids shooting hoops in recent TV spots. "As a business opportunity, the potential is huge," says Anil Kumar, president of SportzIndia Management, a marketing and consulting firm. The key for the NBA, Kumar insists, is TV saturation. "Cricket on the small screen? It's impossible to see the ball. You have to do replays every time. Basketball is a sport made...
Horovitz plans to screen “Atonement” at Harvard and at the synagogue where it was filmed, as well as submitting it to film festivals. He says that he hopes to continue studying film and working on new projects...