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...much for the countdown. Last week's TV news frenzy of ticking clocks, ominous slo-mo images of armies on the move and dark warnings by grave pundits as the due-date for Iraq's weapons declaration drew near has given way to an increasingly confusing spectacle. First there were those shiny gold CD-ROMs and reams and reams of documentation in Baghdad last Saturday breathlessly followed from airport to airport by 24-hour news TV crews before arriving in New York - where they were promptly snatched in a late-night swoop on UN headquarters by U.S. officials empowered...
...these solo "stunt" numbers that Kelly and Astaire seemed to compete with each other most explicitly; each invented ever-more outlandish and amazing virtuoso bits with props and especially film tricks. Gene dances with his shadow self ("Cover Girl") or with Jerry the cartoon mouse ("Anchors Aweigh"). Fred dances slo-mo in the foreground while the background dancers move in regular time ("Easter Parade") or up a wall and across the ceilings ("Royal Wedding"). And though the "Got-ta Dance" ballet in "Singin? in the Rain" is terrif, it?s not the number that lodged itself in film history like...
...film opens with a sound-tracked, slo-mo Vicky (Shu Qi) striding across a flyover at night, with the camera at her back. Time enough for her to tell us in narration that she frequently breaks up with Hao-hao, but he always tracks her down. He begs her to come back and, as if hypnotized, she always returns. Turns out she does p.r. for a nightclub and is torn between Hao-hao and Jack, an older man who visits the club. Mad with jealousy, Hao-hao checks Vicky's telephone bills, receipts, even her smell, for signs of extracurricular...
...viewer's head practically explodes with the concentration they require, the pleasure they bring. And at 50, Tsui hasn't slowed up. Just the first two minutes of his new Time and Tide--the first Hong Kong film he has directed in five years--are breathlessly virtuosic, using slo-mo and rapid cuts and neck-swiveling pans to impart enough visual information for half a dozen Hollywood features...
Ambush is no more than a straight (and twisty) demolition derby, but Lee's Chosen, about the little Buddha, has a burlier and jollier tone than his features. And Wong's The Follow is a fine, full movie in miniature, a perfect showcase for the director's obsessions: voiceover, slo-mo, the glancing connection of two lonely souls in the night. The Hire does his job, trailing a beautiful woman (Adriana Lima). When the two meet, they don't speak or touch; he gazes at her as she sleeps. But her loveliness persuades him to let her escape...