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...Zhang Ziyi provides the beating heart of Daggers. The impetuous girl of Crouching Tiger has grown up. She can emote, even if the sources of those emotions arise from a script that too often veers into the cartoonish. Zhang outshines the green groves of bamboo, the autumn leaves falling, all the beauty of China. (And parts of Ukraine, where some of the film was shot for want of an actual unspoiled Chinese forest.) As Zhang Ziyi matures, some might say her director is regressing. Perhaps the red lantern won't be raised again, and maybe China's aspiring serious moviemakers...
...medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love with the idea, and we just wanted it to exist," McGruder says. "If you want to tell these stories where...
...Meanwhile, a parliamentary commission set up to investigate the bombings adjourned for its summer break. The panel will reconvene on Sept. 7. Departing From Script MOLDOVA The government issued sanctions against the breakaway region of Trans-Dniestr after authorities in the enclave shut schools teaching in Latin script. Russian-speaking Trans-Dniestr wants schools to switch to Cyrillic, the script used during Soviet rule. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the E.U. denounced the separatists' move, with Brussels threatening its own sanctions unless the closures are reversed. Terror Returns UZBEKISTAN Coordinated suicide bombings struck the capital, Tashkent...
...tale of the Jersey hotel workers who drilled holes in the walls to watch guests have sex). He used them in a romantic comedy about a young, depressed Hollywood actor who comes home to his mother's funeral, confronts his father and meets a woman. He wrote the script in 2000 while working as a waiter in Los Angeles after graduating from Northwestern, where he majored in film. "Almost everyone had passed on it," he says of his script. "They all said, 'Make it a three-actstructure movie.' If I submitted it to a screenwriting class, I would have failed...
...confidence is when he reveals, as he has in each interview about the film, that he had always pictured Portman for the role but never dreamed he could land her. After the phrase "someone like Natalie Portman" was mentioned for the hundredth time, a producer sent her agent the script as a long shot...