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...assessment he shares with the U.S. President. "After a succession of statesmen?Jiang Zemin, Vladimir Putin, Kim Dae Jung, Sweden's Goran Persson, Madeleine Albright?have returned home to tell us how rational, well informed, witty, charming, and deeply popular Kim Jong Il is, President Bush's judgement that Kim is loathsome seems the only honest and truthful one," Becker writes. He measures Kim's odiousness not just in nuclear weapons but in corpses. Kim and his father, Kim Il Sung, are responsible for the deaths of millions of North Koreans, he estimates, including as many as 1 million political...
...boys, the patient and kindly Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) becomes a psychiatrist. His possibly more gifted, but much more shadowed brother, Matteo (Alessio Boni), becomes a policeman notable for brutality, hasty judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great...
Filmmaking is not an art form that breeds responsibility. This, admittedly, is not too profound a statement, but it certainly highlights a trait valued in the public’s judgement of films made by industry-proclaimed “auteurs”—excess. This came to mind when I looked at part of the Brattle Theatre’s slate for the weekend—two matinee screenings of Michael Cimino’s famous disaster Heaven’s Gate...
...three governments fund their channels. How do the BBC's far-reaching online services stay off the hook? The Beeb quietly dumped its more commercial sites last year, and the British government's restructuring plan for the BBC, published last week, waxed lyrical on "transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC Online seems to fit in with where it's going anyway." Still, you can bet the BBC will be glued to Kroes' next show. Called To Serve What price politics? If you're Thierry Breton, the answer is about...
...transcript release] doesn’t really get rid of the question of whether he has the good judgement to be an effective president of the university,” the professor said...