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Nolan is part of a brave new Hollywood experiment: handing artistically minded directors big budgets and big stars. Gambling on Sam Raimi's character-driven approach to Spider-Man produced a spectacular hit; stage director Sam Mendes scored big with American Beauty and leads Tom Hanks and Paul Newman down...
For the correspondent too, all this beauty comes tainted. Listening to Nepalese Maoists explain how they torture and kill at will is all the more troubling when heard in a pastoral idyll. It is difficult to imagine the age-old, sun-drenched rice terraces as the execution grounds where the...
And yet maybe there's some hope here. That even killers can lyricize is perhaps a reassurance that behind their battle-narrowed eyes lies a soul. The dreamy pride that Tamil suicide-bomb squad commanders take in their mined and cratered hometowns is at once odd and oddly comforting. It...
In fact, South Korea has a thriving contemporary film industry that, due to the roughness of history, has no past. War destroyed every one of 240 feature films made in Korea before the mid-1940s and most of those made during the 1950s as well. Young South Korean directors like...
In what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and...