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...Indeed, throughout her career, there's been criticism that Nair, despite her gift for lush and stylish spectacles, crams too much onto the screen and tends to lack depth. She claims not to care: "My feeling is that I do what I do, then I offer it to the world. I hope people will be affected by it, watch it and are impressed. I aim to put bums on seats. But that's not to say that I'm confident or unconfident. I don't think about the fruits of my actions. I just do the work...
...that would mark her life. Mamdani describes film as Nair's ideal medium. "Mira often says she left documentaries for fiction because she got tired of waiting for things to happen." The role of the headstrong itinerant is not without a price, however. Time and again, Nair returns on screen to themes of displacement and immigration, the ache of exile. "The parallels between her and Becky Sharp are amazing," says Witherspoon. "She had so many experiences of being an outsider, being a foreigner in a foreign country...
...recent media screening of Somersault, which opens in Australia on Sept. 16 ahead of a worldwide release, you could have heard a pin drop. In Shortland's beautifully atmospheric coming- of-age drama set in the New South Wales snowfields town of Jindabyne, emotions fluctuate as wildly as teenage hormones, but for audiences the most consistent is astonishment. Hushed tones have followed Somersault since it was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May. "It was thrilling, yeah, it was cool," Tom Schutzinger, of Sydney band Decoder Ring, who composed the film's haunting score...
Cynics will say: there's nothing new under the screen. As the temperatures drop outside, though, the cinematic IQ rises. It's too late for the muscle-bound blockbusters, too early for Christmas piety but just the right time for filmmakers' innovation and impudence. Here are four films that are trespassing on virgin soil...
...enough to catch early heart disease, says a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Researchers found that 56% of the more than 1,000 patients who passed a treadmill test, which measures how well the heart withstands exercise, scored above 100 on a follow-up screen for coronary calcium deposits. That puts them at elevated risk for a heart attack within five years. The study's authors say at-risk patients--such as smokers, diabetics or those with high cholesterol or blood pressure--should get a coronary calcium scan, even if they ace their stress test...