Kundun in Entertainment Weekly Fall Movie Preview issue

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They had this mini-article in the new "Entertainment Weekly" issue about
upcoming movies, on page 93 (also has picture from the movie):

KUNDUN

STARRING: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tenzin Kunkhyen
DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese

The season's *other* movie about Tibet doesn't have Brad Pitt,
action-adventure scenes, or a $70 million budget. Scorsese's $28 million
Tibetan journey--by "E.T." scribe Melissa Mathison--chronicles the life of
the 14th young Dalai Lama through 1959, when he fled Tibet for India to
lead his country in exile, and it doesn't even have a movie star in sight.
Instead, Scorsese cast Tibetan refugees, including monks, all with no
acting experience, to play the Dalai Lama at various ages, including the
6-year-old Kunkhyen, who gets high marks from the director. "He was like
a Pesci or De Niro," says Scorsese, "very loose and open." Many of the
older cast members felt their roles more deeply. "So many of them lived
through the experience, or their relatives did," Scorsese's longtime
producer, Barbara De Fina, says of the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950.
"They're very emotional about it and disturbed by it. It wasn't all
acting." (Dec.25)

UPSIDE: A serious movie from a director who's always taken seriously.
DOWNSIDE: No sequel possibilities--that little De Niro in the making is
due to enter a monastery next year.

Sue

"Maybe he got what he deserves--exclusion from the mediocre."--Harvey
Keitel, regarding Martin Scorsese never having won an Academy Award.