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...roomful of agents was waiting expectantly at the FBI's principal training facility at Quantico, Va., when a wiry, intense man stepped to the microphone. Pointing to a video camera recording the session, he tried to break the ice. "I notice you guys are videotaping me," he deadpanned. "And I want to thank the FBI, because this is the first time you have let me know in advance that the recorders were...
Koreeda, a worldwide art-house guru for his spectral memory film After Life, doesn't judge anyone, including the mother. His calm camera observes the four kids quickly falling into the roles of harried parents (the two eldest) or dutiful children (the two youngest). Akira (Yagira) is the dad, treating his sibs with a wondrously gentle authority...
...Koreeda's rigorously unsentimental film as a Spielberg lost-kids plot rendered in Japanese and in slow motion. And they can feast on the child actors, all of them unaffected and adorable. Yagira, with the smooth androgyny of an anime hero, is a real eye magnet; the camera, puppylike, practically licks his face. Yet this precocious thespian is a real kid. When he was finally handed his Best Actor trophy, he asked, "Can I take it home?" --By Richard Corliss
...well-observed chambers of Washington, seems righteous and irrepressible to our ears and hearts, the effect of that power in the anarchic and hidden zone of operations in Iraq is less than noble. And it is the effect of power, far from the gaze of the microphone and camera, far from the critical and moralizing eye, and veiled from the force of law, that matters most. The actual, free exercise of power, distant from its dolled-up rhetorical intent, betrays and cancels the original intentions of its architects. The blood stains at Abu Ghraib, and the flattening of Falluja...
...Sleeping by the Mississippi was published to widespread acclaim (the Washington Post spoke reverently of Soth's "Old Master formality"). The next stop is England, where Soth's Mississippi exhibition runs at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool until Jan. 29. Shot over five years with a large-format camera, Soth's work depicts a journey that progresses from the Mississippi's snow-covered northern reaches to the Delta's squalor. But Sleeping by the Mississippi is less about the river than the spirit of wandering. This is classic American road-trip photography that captures the tender frailties of ordinary...