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...Schindler's List An unlikely, enigmatic hero -- a playboy industrialist -- rescues 1,100 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. In retelling this true story, Steven Spielberg's austere but monumental film re-creates, with chilling immediacy, a central horror of 20th century life and death. Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories...
...BEST OF 1993 69 Taking stock of the year's triumphs and flops 70 Cinema: Romance under wraps in old New York 71 Television: Texas cheer, Depression gloom 72 Design: Memorializing the Holocaust, sublimely 74 Environment: Better times for owls, but not for whales 75 Science: Genes mapped, embryos cloned, Hubble rescued 76 Products: 3DO leads the way to the data highway 79 Books: The real J.F.K. and a Danish thriller 83 Theater: A brassy musical about prison torture 85 Music: Three Tonys who are tigers 86 Show Business: Howard and Rush heat up the airwaves 87 Sport: Memorable clashes...
...Fair Game” (apologies to Cindy Crawford). Apparently, Billy’s acting is good for something other than a punch line. Jesse Eisenberg’s performance, however, is the glue that binds the movie’s varied elements into an affecting piece of cinema. Walt’s development as a character is the driving narrative force, and his confusion, frustration, and ultimate resignation comprise the bulk of the film’s substance. Eisenberg’s method is a study in minimalism: he possesses the uncanny ability to make a seemingly blank expression convey...
...report on Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan [Oct. 3] made clear that there is plenty of opportunity for second acts in the lives of those who have made it big in Bollywood. In a review of one of Bachchan's films nine years ago, TIME described the burgeoning Indian cinema business [Sept...
...official languages ... Western viewers expecting the delicate art films of Satyajit Ray will be in for a pleasant shock. Most Indian films are closer to the populist energy and intimate audience connection of Hong Kong films. And like John Woo's and Jackie Chan's action thrillers, Indian cinema exotically evokes the complex pleasures of Golden Age Hollywood, with its glamour and verve ... India has all the elements to be a vibrant cult cinema in the U.S.?the next Hong Kong...