The scenes of Pollock standing over a giant canvas and creating his famous drip paintings in graceful swooping gestures as the camera discreetly dances around him offer a visceral thrill similar to watching a brilliantly choreographed action-adventure sequence. The trend represents a quantum leap for cinema, enabling it finally to catch up with the Shakespearean updatings that have been staged by theatre directors since before the war. What s at issue here has nothing to do with 'opinion', or whether one likes or dislikes 'Crouching Tiger'. It has to do with the critic s basic grasp of his subject. He s not really a film critic but a quip-minded belletrist who happened into a lucrative gig and appears to have no inclination, now, to patch up the gaping holes in his knowledge of film.
China says it is cracking down on CD and video bootleggers.
Today on Hollywood Boulevard, there's a full-scale revival underway. In movie terms, this is like Norma Desmond being played by Goldie Hawn. The importance of Artsworld succeeding, however, is hard to overstate. With any number of channels dedicated to movies, sports, news, pop, shopping, God, Bollywood and porn, the absence of an arts station continued to make a mockery of the metaphor of multichannel as a vast WHSmith in which the consumer can find exactly the right periodical to cater for his or her taste, however obscure. The Library of Congress is working to prevent the destruction of old TV and radio recordings.