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...part this is because, over the past couple of decades, Americans have turned inward as film-culture consumers. For fun they watch the big Hollywood movies; for edification they go, in much smaller numbers, to the American indies, which have replaced foreign films as the higher-IQ supplement. Another reason is, frankly, that the foreign stuff isn't as exciting as it once was. The preferred art-film mode is dour minimalism, in which glum folks surrender to cosmic torpor in front of a static camera. Even as the pulse of world entertainment, from pop movies to video games...
...being a doctor was to be able to have skills to continually travel and have a skill that could be used all over the world. [Film] allows you to drop into worlds you would never ordinarily get to experience, so if you make a film about doctors, you can watch and film an operation without going through 12 years of medical school. 5.FM: What do you most enjoy about your career? JN: There’s never a dull moment. I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge...
Harvard students, unless they’re participating in a psychology study, rarely just stand around and watch people. Ever-brimming with drive and determination, most of us are always on the move, whether it’s “On to the next study group!” or “On to the next hole in Leverett House senior golf!” Everything is always happening, right...
...Bush's war in Iraq (though he criticized its execution) and Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy (though he previously opposed them). He has spoken passionately against Bush's policy on torture, and condemned the record-breaking growth in government spending that has taken place on Bush's watch. But that fiscal restraint also limits McCain's policy options, which may be why his approaches to health care and the economy don't differ a great deal from the President's. When you boil it all down, global warming is the issue that sets McCain furthest apart from Bush...
...deny the addictive nature of “The Hills” or its ilk—after all, they’re still on the air. Indeed, it seems like each day a new one crops up, as endless Bravo advertisements exhort us to “watch what happens.” But the fact is, most of the time, nothing happens, and real people don’t have Larry David there to make that nothing funny. As reality shows catapult their subjects to fame, they also undermine the illusion they create—any life...