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During the decades he has labored behind the camera, Kwon-taek has amassed considerable critical acclaim: he has won every prize offered by South Korea’s three annual film awards ceremonies; received countless laurels from major international film festivals; and in 2002, he added a Best Director prize from Cannes to his trophy case for his film Chihwaseon...
...Taif Agreement brokered by the Arab League in 1989 to end the Lebanese civil war - which also mandates Syrian withdrawal, but does not require Hizballah's disarmament. Indeed, its success in fighting the 18-year Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000, won Hizballah national acclaim across the political spectrum in Lebanon. (Today, it relies on a flimsier pretext for maintaining an army, claiming that it is fighting to "liberate" the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of territory occupied by Israel that Hizballah claims is part of Lebanon but which the UN regards as part of Syria. Still, Hizballah...
After the film opens to unthinkably positive critical and commercial acclaim (with US Weekly calling it “even better than reading our Brad & Jen commemorative issue”), I will become a regular on David Letterman, appearing three times a week. Move over Harvey Pekar. Audiences will fall in love with me so much —charm, intelligence, good humor, mature hair line—that Academy voters will begin to fear for their lives if they don’t vote...
...Dufresne in 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption knows what a truly gifted actor is about to come to Cambridge. Robbins won Academy Awards for both those roles, and was nominated for Best Director for 1995’s Dead Man Walking. He’s also won acclaim for his roles in 1992’s The Player, 1990’s Jacob’s Ladder, 1990’s Cadillac Man, and for his break-out performance in 1988’s Bull Durham. Real cinema buffs also recognize Robbins for his roles in 1999?...
MILES DAVIS' PAINTING Late in life the trumpeter got serious about the visual arts. Inspired by a movement of colorful art in Milan, Davis found acclaim as a painter in Spain and Japan. Estimate...