Word: superealism
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...recent past. In his last film, 2002's Hero, Zhang tried something utterly different: he retold China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action film. If Zhang Yimou had sold out, as some suggested, the audience hadn't received much in return...
...interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga TOKYOPOP have plans to start a more adult-oriented imprint sometime in the near future. They have also begun soliciting gay comics creators for a series of shonen...
Wilkins, who remembers Obama as “a super star” even back in his law school days, said it was “very clear even in his student days that Obama’s first love was politics at the grassroots level...
They haven't hit the shelves of American stores yet, but Japanese-made Super Dollfies are becoming an online-driven hit in the U.S. With trendily refined makeup, exaggerated features inspired by Japanese animation, and unusual pliability, they are big sellers on websites like doll-hobby.com and have fetched as much as $1,000 on eBay. Last week they starred in their first U.S. convention, in Austin, Texas. Created by Tokyo-based Volks Inc., Super Dollfies (available in miniature form or as large as 2 ft. tall) resemble popular anime characters and can be arranged in various poses, thanks...
...Iran connection to 9/11; Edwards' campaign shifts; Japanese Super Dollfies...