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| | village voice > film > by Dennis Lim |
 | | It's actually an otherwise empty hotel bar on a Sunday morning, but Doyle, in town for the Tribeca Film Festival, intends to continue where he left off a few hours earlier—at a "Harlem speakeasy," as he puts it, with an entourage that included the Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang (Springtime in a Small Town). |
 | | An Australian-born former sailor (with the Norwegian merchant marine), snake oil peddler (in Thailand), and theater troupe founder (in Taiwan), Doyle is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, with whom he essentially invented the dominant vernacular of pan-Asian pop. |
 | | The plan this morning is to discuss Doyle's two August movies—the languid minor-key ballad Last Life in the Universe, by Thai director (and Pratt alum) Pen-ek Ratanaruang, who's sitting in with us, and Zhang Yimou's prismatic, intensely pictorial martial-arts reverie Hero—but the interviewee is having a hard time concentrating. |
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