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...control an estimated 60% of the entertainment industry. And in Hong Kong, where the local movie business is in a slump, the one great hope isn't white at all, but a mix of white and yellow. Fetching young Eurasian actors like Maggie Q and Karen Mok crowd the screen, and through the wonders of global distribution (and video piracy) appear everywhere from the deserts of Tunisia to the shores of the Solomon Islands. "Who better to personify the diversification of Hong Kong movies than a Eurasian actor," says Bey Logan, a local film executive. "It's a face that...
...writers strike, will the actors go with them? Not necessarily. If the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, weary from a long strike against advertisers last year, reach new residual agreements with producers by the time their contracts expire on June 30, actors can still work on movies that are already written. SAG president William Daniels would support waivers for independent productions during a strike. Note to actors and writers: If your union is picketing, any work for a major U.S. studio (even overseas) would be scab labor...
...flat and ineffective—Wang seems unable to manipulate action and tension into a pattern that’s satisfying to audiences. Also lacking is effective imagery. The film is shot, interestingly enough, on digital video, which effectively augments the sense of voyeurism, of watching from a computer screen, but comes at the cost of the quality of the images. Wang also seems lazy or uninspired in his choice of shots and scenery—too much of the screen seems wasted on details (or lack thereof) that do not contribute to the effect or significance of the scene...
...film, as one might guess, is extremely talky and incorporates myriad visual gags into the work. At one point, the protagonist is chased across the screen by a funny-looking monster; at another, somebody asks him about his personal hero while he is dressed as Hugh Hefner. And throughout, the film’s often eccentric questioners—a large robot, a philosophizing guitarist, a strait-jacketed kook and a pillow-clutching man walking through the streets in baggy pajamas, among others—succeed in stimulating the viewer with their odd appearances...
...strengths of The Luzhin Defense are its enigmatic plots and themes. The film maintains the same suspense of the high stakes games of chess and fills the screen with complex interrelationships between characters. All of its thematic gestures seem to feed off of each other, each adding another layer of depth. The film, for example, raises a subtle contrast between Luzhin’s brilliant capacity for strategy and his crippling psychological illnesses. This contrast plays out along the constant parallel between Luzhin’s life and chess games and richens the film’s ending...