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...first novel, “A Darker Shade of Crimson” the protagonist gives the reader advice for surviving at Harvard, including, “laugh at their jokes, shout when necessary, dress impeccably, have a best friend, and be very, very good”—a passage that drew chuckles from the audience...
...their leader dies, a Maori community in New Zealand must come to terms with their new leader, a female and the twin of the deceased. Directed with evocative, poignant subtlety by Niki Caro, this film has received accolades for its beautiful cinematography and the breakthrough performance of its young protagonist, played by the precocious newcomer Keisha Castle-Hughes. The MFA, 11 a.m., $8 students...
When Johnny To signed on to direct the wistfully romantic Turn Left Turn Right, the Hong Kong filmmaker knew exactly whom he wanted to play the male lead. In the illustrated novel by Jimmy Liao, from which the new movie is adapted, the protagonist is so estranged from society that he's depicted floating above the city, like a melancholy blimp. When you want someone who practically oozes that kind of ethereal alienation, whom are you going to call...
...Babak Payami's Silence Between Two Thoughts; Payami reassembled the film from his computer files and showed it on video. The story is set in a country similar to Afghanistan under the Taliban, where fundamentalist clerics move into villages and set up a new Draconian order. The film's protagonist is one of their henchmen, who has been told to kill a young woman in custody for an unnamed crime. The woman is confined to a hutlike cage, where she breathes heavily; she is a wolf with its leg in a trap, in agony but too proud to howl...
...tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies that fixed his screen persona as a menacing yet vulnerable protagonist. The quintessential Bronson film was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a liberal architect turned vigilante after his daughter was raped and his wife killed by street toughs?a role Bronson reprised in four more films. In 1972, he won a special Golden Globe award for being a "world...