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...Globe winner for foreign film, Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima, will not even be nominated in that category, since the Academy's foreign-language finalists are selected from a list of films submitted by their home countries. A non-English-language film from the U.S., like Iwo Jima and Mel Gibson's Mayan massacre movie Apocalypto (also a Globe nominee), is eligible only for Best Picture. The other Globe runners-up - The Lives of Others from Germany, Pan's Labyrinth from Mexico and Volver from Spain - would all be honorable choices for the foreign Oscar...
...leave Real for L.A. is tantamount to retirement, a graceful departure from the stage on which the world follows the game - i.e., Europe - while still close to the top of his game. To understand the significance of Beckham's arrival, it is worth noting that in the same week, Clint Dempsey, a star forward of Team USA, signed for the London club, Fulham, where he'll join other USA stars Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra and possibly soon also Oguchi Onyewu on the playing staff. There he'll play against the likes of his national team captain Claudio Reyna and winger...
...story of Iwo Jima from a Japanese perspective? I was curious to see how he would go about it. But even Japanese actors such as myself were entering unknown territory. We didn't know the way soldiers thought at that time or the extent of their patriotism. We told Clint that we had to diligently search for the truth and research historical fact, and he was very understanding...
...hero or a tragic figure? People should not be categorized. These men, in their own way, lived as best as they could. And I think that, in the film, Clint gave each a breath of life. People like that get destroyed. That...
...this an antiwar film? It is not a purely antiwar film by any means. It is not that simple. But Clint has an eye for describing war's atrocious reality...