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...producers and directors often find their artistic visions held hostage by the whims of the police, whose tastes run to head-spinning violence and slapstick comedy - but no politics or nudity, please. Fewer than 50 local movies are shown annually in Thailand, and the competition for screens spurs many studio bosses to work closely with censors or risk being shut out. The alternative is self-censorship. "We have learned to self-censor ourselves for a long time," says Pimpaka Towira, director of the critically lauded 2003 feature One Night Husband...
...homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD.) Later, catching up with his early work, I wondered if studio casting directors were as naive as I was - if they saw some steely sang-froid in his playing of these roles that persuaded them he was too chilly a presence for Hollywood stardom...
...want a thousand guitars / I want pounding drums,” sings Bruce Springsteen on his new album “Magic,” echoing the sentiments of fans dissatisfied with his recent studio releases. Springsteen hasn’t released a straight-ahead rock album since 2002’s “The Rising,” making folkier albums like “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” and “Devils & Dust” instead. Despite their critical success, it’s impossible not to yearn for what The Boss...
...ordinary performing experience. BRIDGING THE GAP Making a film based on Beatles covers is a formidable task. For starters, how do you pull together an original plot from lyrics everyone has already interpreted? And how do you rearrange classic tunes without offending legions of Beatles fans? Instead of splicing studio-recorded singing into the film’s sound track, Taymor, who won a Tony for directing Broadway’s “The Lion King,” recorded the vast majority of the film’s songs live on the set. “Julie...
...short film “Hotel Chevalier,” which ostensibly provides a prologue to “The Darjeeling Limited.” “Hotel Chevalier” won’t be shown in theaters, but at the request of Anderson and the studio, it is available for free on iTunes. The short shows Schwartzman and Natalie Portman ’03 in a Parisian hotel room and reveals a few details that complicate the subsequent feature. Although the feel of “Hotel Chevalier,” enhanced...