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Though the crepe of impending war hangs over Towers, the film is vivid with melodrama, conflicted love and potent new characters. Treebeard, a tall sylvan sage reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of George Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex, a damned creature slipping in and out of his own private hell. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could match. He is another example of Jackson's pursuit...
...devious, cringing present could be the hobbit's future. Though the crape of impending war hangs over Towers, it is vivid with mortal melodrama and some potent new characters. Treebeard, an Ent (shepherd of the woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could have matched. He is one more example of Jackson's pursuit of a tone...
...familiar Shaw logo?the SB embossed on a scallop-shaped shield?is visible again, in ravishing color and wide-screen ShawScope. In an $84 million deal, the studio's library was purchased by Celestial Pictures, a pan-Asian company run by William Pfeiffer, an American who has lived in Asia for 20 years. Celestial is restoring Shaw films from their original negatives and plans to release several titles, with nifty add-ons like original trailers and interviews with the old stars, to Southeast Asian video outlets every few weeks. The first batch of 10 hits stores this Thursday...
...Hong Kong movie lover, seeing these movies fresh is like opening the treasure chest of Atlantis. First of all, they look great. The colors?glorious golds, bold reds?reveal all the splendor Shaw's set designers and costumers could contrive, though they worked on budgets a fraction of Hollywood's. The wide-screen format, even on a TV screen, restores each film to its original epic dimensions. We are reminded that Chang Cheh's macho melodramas were not just an anthology of fight scenes; they were sumptuous slices of Chinese history, rendered in loving period detail...
...that's the point. No studio, in Hollywood or Hong Kong, produced an unbroken necklace of masterpieces. The variety of the Shaw library will become more evident as we see it whole, in films good and bad. So we look forward to the next batch, due Dec. 19?with more films from Chang Cheh and Chor Yuen and Li Hanxiang, more swoony romances and breakneck comedies and kooky musicals?and to all the Shaw films waiting to get a new life for a new generation. Sir Run Run, still alive at 95, must feel like a proud young father again...