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...steel, oil - we think of these old-economy industries, and we picture pollution. Smoggy skies, fouled rivers, toxic waste. As we make the transition to a new economy, we imagine that industrial pollution will become a thing of the past. Mobile phones, laptops, MP3 players - they conjure images of spotless semiconductor factories and the eternal summer of Silicon Valley where the digital economy was born...
...known for the Sir Terence Conran-designed Ocean Terminal, www.oceanterminal.com. This sprawling three-story shopping mall features all the usual big-box stores but also a handful of cafés, bars and restaurants with floor-to-ceiling views onto the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk. Moored outside, the spotless vessel, with its gleaming engine room (but surprisingly modest royal apartments) is now a museum, harking back to an earlier age of travel and empire. But Leith doesn't worry too much about the past these days. It's pulling away from its gritty history and going full steam ahead...
...depressed cinephile, it was a tonic to find one movie of gigantic ambition and considerable achievement. That would be Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut from U.S. screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. His scripts for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were complex and challenging enough - but they were finger-painting compared with this tale of an upstate New York theater director (played by the great Philip Seymour Hoffman) who tries to create a masterpiece of living art while his life tears itself to shreds...
Kaufman you know as a gifted, mulish, effulgently idiosyncratic screenwriter - one of the few non-directors to establish a unique film voice - of Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Most film scribes making their move to the director's chair would pick a modest project, one that doesn't tax his tyro status. But Kaufman's first work as a total auteur is his most daunting project yet: a portrait of a creative mind in artistic and emotional crisis, painted as a vast mural that encompasses 30-plus...
...capital, that metropolis of 5 million still teems with life. The authorities claim that Naypyidaw, untouched by the storm, is home to nearly 1 million residents. But on a recent visit, I saw only a few dozen people apart from the gangs of manual laborers painting crosswalks and sweeping spotless boulevards. On the 20-minute drive from the airport to the hotel zone--where all six of Naypyidaw's hotels are located--I passed just three other vehicles. One was a horse-drawn buggy...