Spike Jonze's short film about skateboarder Mark Gonzales' skills on two wheels instead of four will be one of the first shown on Friday as the Bicycle Film Festival pedals into the Hong Kong Arts Centre. Despite being a co-creator of Jackass and counting the gregarious Beastie Boys as friends, Jonze (below) has always been at pains to hide his true, introverted self. Pictures of his star-studded 1999 wedding to Hollywood indie princess Sofia Coppola (from whom he is now divorced) appeared in Vogue without featuring a single shot of the groom. Jonze - a pseudonym - directed the movie Where The Wild Things Are, based on the classic children's book by Maurice Sendak …
The Austrian was a prodigious talent from an early age and composed more than 600 works before his death at the age of 35. A study in 1993 confirmed that listening to Mozart's concertos can temporarily improve spatial-temporal reasoning. Although these results, known as the "Mozart effect", have been misinterpreted as an improvement in general intelligence, the study did prove that listening to Mozart enhanced the subjects' performance on a specific cognitive task. Mozart's unpredictable genius was superbly portrayed in the movie Amadeus by American actor Tom Hulce …