Links for the Day (January 20th, 2007)
1. : From Xinhua online.["A flood in a decades-old photography store along Shanghai's Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall helped unearth thousands of photos of movie stars from the 1920s and 1930s.
The photos are now on display at the Shanghai Wangkai Photo Studio. "We were amazed to find these photos, which had not been noticed by anyone before," said studio manager Sun Mengying, noting that many photos of stars from the golden age of Shanghai cinema were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)."]
2.
: Kevin Lee interviews the acclaimed Korean director about his latest film.
["The protagonist of Hong Sang-soo’s new film Woman on the Beach is a director at a crossroads in his career. Could the same be said of Hong?
It’s been ten years since his debut, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996); six features later, he is a regular on the international festival circuit (the ultra-exclusive New York Film Festival has programmed the newest Hong release each of the last three years). Ever since A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000) and Turning Gate (2002) startled festival-goers with their highly studied yet playful examination of sexual relationships, a small but intensely appreciative fan base has had high expectations for the day Hong—who’s sometimes billed as Korea’s answer to Eric Rohmer—becomes a household name."]
3.
: From MSNBC.
["Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like “California Dreamin”’ and “Monday, Monday,” died Friday at 66."]
4.
: GIMME ALL YA GOT!!!
["Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actor "Al" Pacino, real name Alfredo James Pacino, is all set to star as surreal artist Salvador Dali in 'Dali I: The Surreal story'. Directed by Andrew Niccol, the film will highlight Dali's later life when the artist began to focus more on surreal work."]
5.
: By Adrian Martin for Rouge.
["When making a film, Terrence Malick speaks to his collaborators in poetic images. To Martin Sheen in Badlands (1973), he said: ‘Think of the gun in your hand as a magic wand.
’ To the post-production team (editors and sound mixers) on The Thin Red Line (1998), he advised: ‘It’s like moving down a river, and the picture should have the same kind of flow.’ And to Jörg Widmer, his Steadicam operator for The New World (2005), he whispered: ‘You have the quail at the wing when it’s about to fly.’ What kind of directions are these to give your actors and technicians?
Malick does not talk to them about the usual, conventional things: the inner psychological or emotional states of characters; the themes or intentions of the story. He does not even talk about the composition of the shots or the editing pattern he envisages for them. Rather, in every case, he asks those who work with him to inhabit a state, a mood, a feeling that is captured in a precise physical image: the wand in the hand, the water in the stream, the bird at the wing.
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