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...videos, the benevolent, ursine Jackson wanders around the set, cameraman in tow, amiably accosting stars and grips and caterers alike in his thick New Zealand accent ("conceptual artwork" turns into "con-sip-shull aht-wook") and interviewing them about whatever it is they do. We meet such unsung heroes as Tony Drawbridge, a propmaker who handcrafts fake animal poop, and Ngaire Woods, the production's plane spotter, who sits on a hill with binoculars and watches for passing aircraft that might disrupt a shot. There are some naysayers. "I can't believe they get to see me in costume...
...clock is ticking?the U.S. has said it cannot tolerate a nuclear-tipped North Korea, but it has failed to shut down the bomb factories. At some point the U.S. Administration will have to consider stronger medicine?sanctions, an economic blockade, even a military strike. Says Choi Jin Wook, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification: "Tensions will inevitably escalate...
...Park Chan Wook's Old Boy. It took the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) When Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that the jury was "delighted" with its choice...
...Three other awards went to Asian artists. The Grand Jury Prize (second place) was given to Park Chan-wook, director of the vigorous, violent Korean melodrama ?Old Boy.? This was precisely the sort of genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict...
...angst, Agnès Jaoui's Comme une Image (Look at Me), displayed a tender wisdom toward its characters. Some popular genres - the thriller, the martial-arts epic, Japanese anime - made rare appearances at Cannes. Asia's strong showing included a mainstream Korean revenge-a-thon (Park Chan-wook's Old Boy), a Hong Kong media melodrama (Johnnie To's Breaking News) with an elaborate five-minute tracking shot of a shootout, and a gorgeous animated feature (Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence) from the company that did the smashing anime segment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill...