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Imbuing the camera's eye with spiritual significance, director Theo Angelopoulos brings us the visually beautiful, yet emotionally challenging "Ulysses' Gaze." Through the story of a director's earnest search for a film reel from the earliest history of cinema, Angelopoulos chronicles a greater quest for lost innocence and an untainted view...
...movie begins with A.'s return home to Greece, to the stormy reception of his latest movie, showing early on the social impact cinema can have. This spurs A. to question himself and, by extension, a closer view of his work, leading to his search for old documentary reels made by the Manakis brothers, early figures in Balkan cinema. As A. travels from country to country, including the fractured parts of the former Yugoslavia, he tries to track down where these lost reels ended up in the half-century or more since their last showing. Locales charged with history replace...
...wonder: Will Hollywood ever make a place for Hong Kong cinema? Woo and Chan and the flock of successful Chinese actors and directors now making deals in Los Angeles may find that the hurdles of race and culture are hard to clear. For example, the seven Oscar nominations Sense and Sensibility received last week did not include one for its Taiwanese director...
...best work of either man, Broken Arrow and Rumble serve as introductions to the spirit of Hong Kong cinema, even as they serve notice to U.S. moviemakers. Think you can do it better? Just watch! Hollywood will watch and, if there's any justice, give Chan and Woo the best seats in the house...
Just plunk down your $7.50 at the beautiful art-nouveau Kendall Square Cinema and hang on for an artistic tour-de-force extravaganza; you'll buy the whole seat but you'll only need the edge. It's good old-fashioned eye candy, and your money won't be wasted. The movie may be pure escapism, but by the end, when the final marble falls into place, you'll be looking out from behind those plastic yellow bars...