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I will honor the pleas of the film's press agents and not reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that...
The hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to...
So who is driving this thing? More than anybody else it's a manic, shaven-headed character named J Allard. (Yes, it's just the one letter.) In 1993, as a 25-year-old wunderkind Microsoftie, Allard wrote an 11-page memo that almost single-handedly persuaded Gates that maybe...
Golf affords you the opportunity to see someone's character. Does he lose his temper? Does he use horrible language? Is he helpful? Is he too helpful? Does he cheat? You are your own referee on the golf course. Your character is on the line.
DIED. JOE GRANT, 96, one of Disney's most influential early artists and story developers, whose credits over a seven-decade career included co-writing Dumbo, helping devise the story for Fantasia and creating the queen-witch character in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; of a heart attack, while...