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...director, Kathryn Bigelow, has paraded her adroitness with complex stories about oddball characters in two curious subgenres: Near Dark (1987) was the all-time teenage vampire love story, Point Break (1991) the all-time surfer-heist movie. The scriptwriter, Marc Boal, is a journalist for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Playboy, which ran a story that Paul Haggis expanded into the sharpest of last year's Iraq-related dramas, In the Valley of Elah. These two filmmakers have pooled their complementary talents to make one of the rare war movies that's strong but not shrill, and sympathetic...
...master psychopath, maybe both. A quote from former New York Times Iraq expert Christopher Hedges that opens the film says, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in a hellish peace-keeping operation like the U.S. deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan (James' previous assignment), the Army needs guys like James...
...ranks third in points per game with 2.27, and the two players above her—Wayne State’s Melissa Boal and Sam Poyton—play on a team with few other scoring options and have padded their stats in blowouts against lesser squads such as Northeastern and Union while the Warriors are 0-4 against top-10 teams...
...Elah is based on a Playboy investigative article, Mark Boal's "Death and Dishonor," about a returned Iraq vet whose body was found near an Army base, hacked to pieces with dozens of stab wounds...
...another visiting Latin American fellow at Harvard.“We began conversations, and I mentioned to Pedro a reference to Antanas Mockus who was currently teaching at Harvard a class on Hedonism and Pragmatism,” says Sommer.Mockus—along with Brazilian theater innovator Augusto Boal and Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky—became a major inspiration for Reyes as both he and Sommer continued to rethink the societal issues facing the world of contemporary art. “It was a unique opportunity,” says Reyes of his experience at Harvard...