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...Fred von Lohmann, the senior copyright lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, advocates a more gradual approach, keeping much of copyright law intact for video but making radical changes for music, given that the recording industry is suffering much more severely than Hollywood. The key, he says, is to compensate authors and artists while at the same time making room for "disruptive technology to emerge. Some of the developments we have seen have threatened to disrupt existing business models, but that's okay. There would never have been an iTunes store without Napster, and wihtout YouTube...
...Free Zone; that Fusako Urabe survived an emotional thrashing in Bashing; that Manderlay star Bryce Dallas Howard had to put up with Von Trier's Svengalise personality; that Taiwanese beauty Hsu Chi (aka Shu Qi) was quite decorative watching guys shoot pool in Three Times; and that Alison Lohmann carried the story, while sinking the plausibility, of Where the Truth Lies. These performances merit sympathy at best, not a commendation...
...Truth Lies can be quickly dismissed. There's piquancy in the plot (from a Rupert Holmes novel), about a blond corpse discovered in the hotel suite of a comedy team - smooth Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...
...Firth and Bacon never demonstrate camaraderie, let alone comic finesse. Lohmann plays the investigatrix as a decadent but dewy Nancy Drew. So convincing as a 14-year-old in the Ridley Scott Matchstick Men, she is incompetent here. And Egoyan shows that, when he's not pursuing his own fascinating demons, he's subpar as a director for hire...
...packed with special features and available to rent for $2 or to buy for $15, who wants to waste a day downloading a movie? "I've frequently suggested they give up on all this copy protection because it doesn't make a bit of difference," says Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer for the Electronic Freedom Foundation who defended Grokster against the movie industry's lawsuit. "It's not all the fancy locks that protect the industry. It's a great product at a great price...