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...right here,” he says, opening the bag and leafing through his well-worn sheet music. “I just sang...
...point of view," says Central Station director Walter Salles, who just finished directing Mexico's new heartthrob, Gael García Bernal, in a film version of Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries. That means less predictable storytelling. Even though Carrera's Crime of Father Amaro is a well-worn story of clerical lust and hypocrisy, its moral center is as inscrutable as Mexico itself. We hope the young priest Amaro (played by Bernal) will be heroically redeemed when he rejects celibacy; but that pat expectation gets turned on its ear. Devising an un-Hollywood ending, says Carrera...
...Brahm, a New York native, arrived in Beijing in 1981 as a student, clutching a well-worn copy of Mao's Little Red Book and seeking the revolutionary fervor he first encountered in Edgar R. Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there...
...Because Dai uses Ma's voice-over narration sparingly and because the act of reading is tough to dramatize, his film loses some of the novel's eloquent and original meditations on the power of books. The Little Chinese Seamstress too often falls into the well-worn treads of a traditional coming-of-age tale. It doesn't help that Dai seems to forget that the boys are living in the middle of the Cultural Revolution; with its postcard-perfect vistas and the endless free time the trio enjoys, life in Phoenix on the Sky seems less re-education camp...
...well-worn sweatshirt Subrahmanian sports for his interview bares the insignia of one of his many activities: CityStep. Subrahmanian joined the organization his sophomore year, after having had extensive experience in theater and recreational break-dancing. He speaks enthusiastically about the program as “an opportunity to give arts to kids at an earlier age” and to expose them to “alternative methods of shining.” Subrahmanian also performs in Ghungroo, the South Asian Association’s annual cultural show...