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...Evening-what we have here is a movie that is, most fundamentally, an anti-movie. That is to say, it is all wistful regrets about nothing very much, statically staged, lacking in dramatic incident, gripping confrontations, a compelling dramatic arc. There's simply no point in making-or seeing-movies in which pretty people stand about mooning over what might have been. For better or worse, they have to be about people who challenge their fates, instead of limply succumbing to them...
...different stages. Angola's is in its first explosive flush of production, with gdp expected to grow 27% this year. Nigeria is in its prime, ranking as the world's 12th largest producer in 2006. Gabon's wells are slowly drying up. Together, these three nations trace an evolving arc of oil's effect on Africa and the world, of both its promise and its perils...
...affection from her faithless husband to a condemned killer (Taiwanese star Chang Chen) who keeps trying to commit suicide. Both, the movie says, are doomed, but to Yeon life is made precious by her devotion to the condemned man. It's one of those stories with a predictable arc, and this one requires a more imaginative treatment than Kim has managed to summon...
Later Serra moved to working with massive plates of rolled steel. As it turned out, the most famous of those would be Tilted Arc, a 120-ft.-long curving steel wall that was commissioned by the U.S. government for the plaza outside a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, only to become the focus of a huge public battle in the late 1980s when some office workers complained that it had laid claim to so much of the plaza as to make the space unusable. (For the record, they had a point.) When the feds decided to remove the work, Serra...
...same strategy Apatow used to sell his movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin: Put a huge unknown face in the middle of a billboard and hope people get curious. But at least Virgin's Steve Carell looked vaguely like a handsome leading man. Rogen doesn't. So the arc of his career makes little sense to anyone, including Rogen, who is walking around the set of his next starring vehicle--The Pineapple Express--agog at the surrealism of the Rogen-look-alike stuntmen walking by. "I never thought I could do any of the things I'm doing. It seemed...