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...accident is a bad one--mother and child dead, the father hanging on by a thread. It is Chicago policewoman Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) who talks the guy through, gives him back his life...
...first-ever entry from Bosnia, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land. Worthy films all?but the best of a mediocre bunch. There was no Crouching Tiger to send the collective spirit soaring, no Dancer in the Dark to set the critics at knifepoint. There was, however, a common thread in many Asian films. From the usually insular Iranians to the peripatetic Chinese, top auteurs were literally on the move, making road movies. Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Jacob Cheung (Hong Kong) went to France; Cheung also touched down in Africa, as did Iran's Abbas Kiarostami. And although Hong...
...building up forms with continuous movements of the brush, he used tiny luminous highlights, pasty dots and spots bringing more dissolved areas of light into focus. These gave a startling effect of studied, textural distinctness. It's as though you see every crumb in a cut loaf, every thread in a tapestry...
...artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse to the prissy methods of meritocracy...
...have written a number of books and you can check me out on amazon.com. The common thread that runs throughout all my books is the effect pop culture has had on America’s economic and political institutions. Aside from innovations in computer software and some areas of medicine, America’s chief intellectual export has become entertainment—and I am interested to know how that has affected Harvard...