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...that "effective international pressure may have an effect on North Korea." Pyongyang's posture - as erratic and obtuse as it may be - has been driven primarily by the need to end its international isolation. Economic stasis and mass starvation have made the archaic Stalinist regime centered on the personality cult of its "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il desperate not only for trade and investment, but even for food aid from some of its traditional enemies...
...Love will almost certainly flop. It’s short on visual energy, rendering television advertising useless, and its built-in audiences will scorn it: it’s not the sort of over-the-top fare that attracts Sandler’s fans, while Anderson’s cult, salivating over the prospect of another high-octane meditation in the Magnolia vein, will likely see it as an agreeable but minor work. Years from now, it will probably surface at the Coolidge as part of their series of flops from famous directors. Nevertheless, I’ll defend...
...inspired by a cult comedy from a writer-director at least as famous for his talk-show and other extracurricular appearances as for his movies...
...playfully provocative, the films he made during this time were overtly non-controversial. Today, with all that has changed in Iran, Kiarostami still finds himself both a part of and apart from the lives of the ordinary Iranians his work depicts so faithfully. His films have earned him a cult following outside Iran, but audiences at home have been less won over by his deceptively simple deconstructions of the country's emotional and social landscape. "When the public in Iran goes to my films very often they get angry and leave in the middle," he says. "When...
...been six years since Fight Club, his first novel, made him a cult figure. It's been one year since Choke made him a best seller. But Chuck Palahniuk is still inconsolable. The sheer, emasculating plenty of bourgeois life, all that stuff you can buy--it still sends him into an angry funk. In his new book he is also consumed by a world burdened with radio personalities, invasive kudzu, tormented anchovies and boring, phony jobs. There are writers who have a signature mood. What Palahniuk has is a signature posture: recoil...