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...Rahman's phenomenal productivity that's so dazzling, but the quality?and success?of the work he's turning out. In 14 years, the 38-year-old has written music for more than 50 movies. And in an industry where the soundtrack is often considered more important than the plot, his scores have broken all records?more than 100 million of his cassettes and CDs have been sold. These days, he's so sought after that even Bollywood's deepest pockets are finding it hard to sign Rahman. Last year, he composed the martial score for Chinese director He Ping...
While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which recently finished its run on the mainstage, may be Tom Stoppard’s most famous play, Travesties is certainly his most virtuoso, flawlessly combining the plots of two plays and pulling off stunts like a scene in the style of a chapter from Ulysses or a debate about dadaism, traditional art and love composed entirely of lines from Shakespeare. Travesties features the lives of three famous foreigners who lived in Zurich during World War I: James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and the dadaist Tristan Tzara. Each of these men is radical...
...very complete Harvard Film Archive Ozu festival. The intriguing family dynamics concern an independent daughter—it is the 50s after all and women are finding their place—who refuses her more traditional father’s plan of an arranged marriage. Beyond the plot, however, Ozu’s movies are special for their interest in color—in this case, red (Ozu’s favorite color)—and philosophy, which is expressed by the slowly enlightened father: “Everyone is inconsistent now and then, except God. Life is full...
Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s latest film mixes the chaos in Paris just before the Nazi occupation with a hearty dash of scandal, intrigue and romance. Although Rappeneau’s recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults. Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she?...
...figure or pouty lips, but rather her ability to bring him out of his shell. The movie depicts every teenage boy’s fantasy, as Danielle immediately takes Matthew under her wing and introduces him to a life of skipping class, belly shirts, and strip clubs. But the plot seems secondary to director Luke Greenfield’s desire to experiment with the use of porn as a motif while still adhering to the restrictions of an R rating. The mold of the standard high school film is certainly broken with The Girl Next Door, but in this particular...