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...shoulders of Hero ride the hopes of all Asian cinema. Did Crouching Tiger's popularity portend a huge global market for Asian movies, or was it a fluke? That uncertainty - and Hero's $30 million budget - has piled pressure on everyone on the set. It's palpable, but rarely mentioned, like the wire propelling an actor through an action sequence that gets computer-erased in the final print...
Killer Films and New Line Cinema joined to give it a chance on the screen. "We thought it would be a really cool low-budget movie," says New Line's president of production, Michael DeLuca. "John said his inspiration [for the movie] was Bob Fosse, especially All That Jazz, and that was 100% on the right track." With a safe-bet budget of $5 million, Mitchell, 37, was allowed to star, write the screenplay and make his directorial debut. "I was bored with acting," explains the theater veteran, "and I had a lot of strong ideas I didn't want...
...artist] was closer to cinema than any other painter of his day, partly because he was obsessed by the power of cinema to make dreams immediate...
...just technicians but creators have that retrospective spirit. Fully half of our cinema entries are set in the past, from a decade ago back to World War II and into the mythical mists of the Qing dynasty. Some of our top CDs are replays of Shostakovich and Django Reinhardt. The hip place for Londoners to see modern art is in a revamped old power station. The best of theater includes a Trojan War epic and something called Hamlet. And on our fiction list, No. 4 is...Beowulf...
...Cinema The year of the 'Tiger'; 'Chicken' struts...