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...past half-century. Add The Conversation and his Vietnam movie, Apocalypse Now, and Coppola had one decade, the '70s, as artistically productive as almost any other filmmaker's in history. Yet in his later years, Coppola had trouble getting film financing; and in 2007, when he released Youth Without Youth, his first new picture in a decade, it was greeted with a shrug from critics and the public...
...echoes of the Godfather films, for which Coppola, who knew nothing about real gangsters, has said he appropriated much of his own family dynamic - the scenes of eating and arguing. There are also hints of another 1974 classic, Chinatown, in the family mystery peeled layer by layer. And like Youth Without Youth, the new film boasts an exceptionally sensitive performance by a young actor - here Ehrenreich, who looks like a missing Sheen brother and plays the callow Bennie as if innocence and ignorance were the coolest qualities a teenager could possess...
...Granted that, the film, which uses the same team Coppola found for the much more daring and romantic Youth Without Youth, looks great. After hundreds of movies and TV shows shot in the shaky-cam style, it's a blessing to find one in which the camera is on a tripod - and almost never moves. That gives Tetro the stateliness of silent films, just as the use of glistening or sepulchral black-and-white brings some of the glamour of classic Hollywood. But Coppola fans want him to recapture the dramatic coherence and operatic grandeur of his most productive decade...
...Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang defended the government's decision to require computer makers to install the filtering program, called Green Dam Youth Escort, in order to protect young Chinese from "unhealthy content including pornography and violence." But a survey on the popular news portal ifeng.com showed that 75.8% of the participants thought it might impinge on their privacy; 62% didn't think it would prevent teenagers from viewing "improper" content. As many as 90% are not willing to pay an extra fee for the designated software, and 73% said they would try to uninstall the software when they bought...
...sweetheart deal. Certainly the company that produced the software, Jinhui Computer System Engineering Company, will cash a nice check from the government, which will apparently underwrite the inclusion of the program." Jinhui Computer System Engineering, a private company based in Henan Province, currently offers the Green Dam Youth Escort software to the public as a free download. The government paid the company $6.1 million for one year's usage rights, but it's unclear if PC makers will be required to pay for copies. (See the 25 best blogs...