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...Described by Director of Federal Relations Suzanne Day as an “omnibus bill,” the Higher Education Act includes undergraduate and graduate student aid, early intervention programs, and resources for teacher training. The bill was last reauthorized in 1998 and is renewed about every six years, but is now several years off cycle...
...Typically, Altman's contribution to the omnibus film Aria focused not on the singers but on the operagoers. Everyone gets to be a prima donna, or a spear carrier, in Altman's daring democracy. Not many directors would think to open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment...
...Mitchell's movie brims with so much fun and heartbreak that it upset few people and beguiled many. The densest concentration of film talent this year - 21 directors, including Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer - collaborated on Paris, Je T'aime, an omnibus movie of short segments, each set in a different Paris neighborhood. This sort of enterprise can invite directorial indifference, but at least half of the episodes are charming or poignant, with a lovely, lingering aftertaste. Special mention to Joel and Ethan Coen's vignette...
This has been a strange festival. In the first few days, at least to these veteran eyes, the two most satisfying works on view have been the series of vignettes that make up the omnibus film Paris, je t'aime, and four scenes from Bill Condon's unfinished Dreamgirls, shown Friday by DreamWorks and Paramount at the Martinez Hotel...
Finally. After nearly two whole days of Cannes. On the fifth try. A really good movie. Lots of little good ones, really, in an omnibus picture called Paris, Je t'aime...