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...stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact that the questions at the film’s core are distinctly those of our time—a time when our country’s de facto cultural voice is some mongrel mishmash of Fox News and CNN. If only writer-director James Gray were more sensitive to these issues, then his film might seem 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...
...caters to the viewer who is exposed to art house but also enjoys Bollywood. The budgets are typically small, the cast are good actors but not necessarily stars, and the audience is select. "Noir, comedy, sports - new genres are being explored," says film critic Rajeev Masand of TV channel CNN-IBN. "Filmmakers have finally realized that they need to stop seeing the audience as one giant mouth to feed, and that different mouths have different tastes. There's room for all cuisines...
...just seems like a better opportunity to play CNN or ESPN rather than HUDS ads,” he said...
...differences between the culture of exposure and the culture of propriety go far beyond sex and sartorial choices. One of my first journalistic assignments came from an American women's magazine. In September 1994, when Cairo was hosting a U.N. population conference, CNN aired footage of the backstreet genital mutilation of a young Egyptian girl. Egypt's conservatives claimed that CNN and the girl's family had shamed Egypt on the world stage. A year on, I was to find the girl and do an update. After a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl...
When Edwards suddenly announced last week that he would accept public matching funds - and with it, the campaign finance law's spending restrictions - he portrayed it as a move of conviction. "This is not about a money calculation," Edwards told CNN. "This is about taking a stand, a principled stand, and I believe in public financing...