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...They were somewhere else, probably drowning their sorrows in Tsingtao beer. For in a year when the Jury awarded four of its eight prizes to actors and directors from East Asia, ?2046? received no prize. None, that is, except the consolation prize of professional movie people. The Screen International committee of film critics had voted it the best of Cannes - and with good reason. Wong?s film is a cool meditation on, and a warm evocation of, the loves of a man?s life. The man (Leung, playing the same character he did in Wong?s 2000 Cannes prize-winner...
...last fall), radical de-Baathification (only to re-Baathify in certain cities this spring) and a stubborn belief that Iraqi leaders handpicked by hard-liners in Washington would be the perfect start to the Arab world's first democracy. When those leaders turned out to have no followers except in Washington, the U.S. quietly tossed the entire political puzzle into the hands of a U.N. envoy named Lakhdar Brahimi and signaled, without saying so, that it would accept just about any group of interim leaders he can get into place by June 30, the date for the long-awaited hand...
...been supplanted by new concerns. The biggest new concern is the presidency of George W. Bush, which has united Democrats across the spectrum and changed the zeitgeist of the party. The internecine battles of the past, however entertaining, have been put aside (for the moment) by all Democratic factions except Al From and the Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry did, but with neoconservative gusto. In typical From fashion, the DLC blasted what he views as the Kumbaya wing of the Democratic Party for being...
...grace and pain of love - 2046 may be the film of 2004. If Cannes' solid program lacked anything, it was an old-fashioned film scandale. In another venue, Fahrenheit 9/11 might have done the trick; but since nearly everyone at Cannes is left wing, the debate was minimal (except for Godard, who impishly said the film would help re-elect Bush). British director Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs, with its hard-core porn elements, showed only in the Marché du Film, so it was ineligible for an Outrage award. So Cannes settled for annoying the American right. Even before...
...lone houses by roads or railroads. House by a Road (1940) has windows like the eyes of a skull, filled in with pure black, and a thick wood huddles around it. The windows in House at Dusk (1935) are shaded or give onto rooms that are lighted but empty - except for one, where a woman looks out. Who is lonelier, the woman or the watcher looking at her? And what gives his work its unmistakable haunting atmosphere? Hopper himself wasn't much of a guide. He was somewhat reclusive, and discussed his work only in the most general...