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...amount of dramatic irony. Unfortunately, “Burn After Reading” lacks the inspired characters and dramatic depth that carried their best efforts. The Coens, who wrote and directed the movie, are prolific filmmakers, producing roughly one film every two to three years since their first collaboration, 1984??s “Blood Simple.” After building a reputation with critical successes such as “Fargo” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” it’s no wonder that “Burn After...
While some media reports indicate that he might like his wife, Victoria, to succeed him, others say that an open Senate seat—which the Commonwealth has not seen since the election of John F. Kerry in 1984??could prompt campaigns by several of the state’s most prominent politicians...
...Science fiction is so far the only genre that has truly captured this novel morality play. The great dystopic and apocalyptic tales, such as Orwell’s “1984??, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, and Vonnegut’s “Cats Cradle”, are all written as science fiction. Our power to utterly destroy ourselves or our world through nuclear war or other man-made mishaps has only been comprehended and communicated through science...
...first glance, “The Lives of Others” is just another “1984??-aping, “Big Brother is watching,” dystopian storyline. After all, the film is set in East Germany in 1984, before the fall of the Berlin Wall—a time when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) kept a strict control on its citizens. However, first-time director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck enhances that common storyline, making raw human relationships the central component of the drama, rather than the history of political events or theory...
...South Korean foreign minister—who earned a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School in 1984??received 14 yes votes and one no-opinion vote in an informal U.N. Security Council straw poll held at 4 p.m. yesterday...