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...hardly deny that director Taylor Hackford (The Devil's Advocate) is a skilled craftsman (although I've always wondered how a filmmaker can make it when he has the word "hack" in his name). Proof of Life is a handsome and intelligent picture that's both paced and shot beautifully. The breath-taking, ultra-gritty finale, in which Thorne and his team of mercenaries attempt a daring rescue operation, is reminiscent of the best work of Michael Mann. And yet the finale is also the only point in the movie in which Hackford the storyteller is truly allowed to cast...
...certainly made a difference in Marco Antonio Mamani's life. Two years ago, Mamani, 33, was a jewelry craftsman in Cuzco, "selling what I could on a plastic sheet by the central square." Then a notice for a seminar on e-commerce by the Peruvian Science Network (rcp), a nonprofit organization that has spurred the launch of more than 500 public Internet centers across the country, piqued his interest. Taking advantage of rcp's free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly...
...invasion of western pop culture is also at a representational disadvantage in this book, as it is a translation. It is literally impossible to discern American colloquial from German idiom, as they become one and the same, written in the equivalent language. No doubt Schulze is a master craftsman, but his few missteps in this new volume lead one to hold back unabashed praise. We shall wait to see if he indeed becomes the "new epic storyteller" that Gunter Grass has pegged him to be. Until that main course, wet your palate on Simple Stories...
...modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary Egypt. Set in a working-class suburb of Cairo, it features a similar assortment of human characters as the U.S. version, but they are altered to represent local types--the green grocer, the civil servant, the craftsman and the local schoolteacher...
...difficulties of completing a novel, says Guterson, "pose enough problems without letting yourself get distracted by external problems." Nonetheless, the fact remains that if East of the Mountains were coming out under regular circumstances, it would probably be regarded as a worthy excursion from a deeply serious and accomplished craftsman. With a $500,000 marketing budget attached, it may look like a disappointment...