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City of God is the latest film in the vital new Latin American cinema, and the fiercest. Next to it, Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien seem like slouchers. The storytelling and filmmaking vigor never lets up. The camera takes a bullet's point of view as it ricochets toward a victim; the tangled history of a gang's hideout is shown in two dozen supple dissolves; a bank heist is replayed to clear up a murder mystery. Because the director has brought his monsters and their world to teeming life, City of God conquers your scruples and stokes...
...watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle. He's already a real director. If he ever tires of his name above the title, he could build a cottage industry as the cinema's handsomest auteur...
KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA...
...quintessential documentary on red-neck Americana and its political basis has turned more heads in curiosity than a gun show in Harvard Square would. Criticized for its self-indulgence and questionable objectivity, Bowling for Columbine is nonetheless a dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Bowling for Columbine screens...
...enthuses. "It's nice to be a writer talking about writing instead of that other shit!" He approves, too, of Supple's grand staging. The director is throwing every theatrical device in the book at the show - intricate sound and lighting plots, rich costumes brought from India, even a cinema screen that can split into four to help depict the different narrative strands. The operating principle, says Rushdie, is excess. "Everything in this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show...