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Film scholar Antonia Lant has focused on silent cinema. She is currently working on a book-in-progress titled The Red Velvet Seat
...compilation of women's writings on cinema before 1950, and The Cine-Sphinx, a book-length study of Egyptomania in cinema...
Although Dream Life inherits something from the best of French cinema verite, with its rickety yet immediate visuals, the cinematography doesn't suffer. Striking images include a pre-Marie Isa sleeping (and filmed) by grainy gaslight, an ethereal and misty beach scene showing the disjunction between Marie's romantic hopes and used reality, and a love scene that portrays Marie in fragile, baby-pink hues...
MOYERS: Joseph Campbell once said all the great myths, the ancient great stories, have to be regenerated in every generation. He said that's what you are doing with Star Wars. You are taking these old stories and putting them into the most modern of idioms, the cinema. Are you conscious of doing that? Or are you just setting out to make a good action-movie adventure...
...conductor, the other a rowdy mechanic. Add two girlfriends and some triad intrigue, and you have one of the Chan man's giddiest workouts. Look for cameos by Hark, Lam, John Woo and Kirk Wong--all top action auteurs. But the real fun is in seeing Hong Kong pop cinema at its innocent, crowd-pleasing best. And for Jackie, that goes double...