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...wanted to convey an emotional thing through a medium that looks kind of amateurish so it’d be very personal, very down to earth,” says Mayer...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Terminus' Explores Limits of Narrative | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...people who write plays don't really know how it's going to play. I mean, how do you know? Like some years ago, my wife and I went to see Ralph Fiennes do Hamlet. And I'd seen movies of Hamlet, I'd seen kind of amateurish productions, and I'd read the play. But we walked out of that theater, and we stood there, and we went, "Holy s---." Now how did Will know that was going to happen? [Everybody laughs.] So my question is, At what point do you have some sense of whether a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...less a propaganda co-written by the NYPD’s PR branch and the Department of Homeland Security, and more like the excellent crime thriller it might have been (and sort of is). Thankfully, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg bolster Gray’s average direction and his amateurish screenplay. Phoenix’s character, Bobby, runs a Brooklyn nightclub under the auspices of a shifty Russian family, while Wahlberg’s character, Bobby’s brother Joseph, serves as a decorated police officer and lives in the shadow of his father, the chief of police. When...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: We Own The Night | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...amateurish and disorganized, but the Kolkata derby still inflames the passions of thousands. Afterward, two men in their early 20s wait to hop onto one of the many trucks that ferry fans back to Kolkata's impoverished suburbs. Though brothers, their loyalties are divided. "Sure, it was muddy. It was ugly," says the beaming Mohun Bagan fan as his brother dejectedly looks on. "But to us, it's beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash of the Titans | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Terrorists can be sophisticated failures. They can also be amateurish murderers. The only sensible option is to focus on reducing their ability to inflict mass casualties, however they might do it. In other words, with our limited resources, it's more important right now to protect Times Square from an old-school fertilizer bombing, a relatively easy attack that could kill thousands, than to try to prevent an airplane from being taken down by liquid explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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