Word: dada
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...Barbet Schroeder has directed movies with stars like Jeremy Irons, Sandra Bullock and Gérard Depardieu. But he has also made documentaries, including up-close studies of Idi Amin Dada and Koko the talking gorilla. His new film, Terror's Advocate, is a biopic of Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who has defended many of the 20th century's most notorious miscreants, from Carlos the Jackal to the Nazi "Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie. Asked if he would defend Hitler, Vergès replies, "I'd even defend Bush. Of course he'd have to admit...
...compete as riveting drama with Terror's Advocate, the Barbet Schroeder documentary also showing in Cannes. Like Winterbottom, but long before him, Schroeder has compiled an imposing resume of fiction films (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, Murder by Numbers) and documentaries (General Idi Amin Dada and Koko, a Talking Gorilla). His new non-fiction study is a biography of Jacques Vergès, a lawyer who defended some of the most infamous activists of the 20th century, from the terrorist Carlos the Jackal to the Nazi executioner Klaus Barbie...
Everyone saw Forest Whitaker win the Oscar for Best Actor, but few saw his performance onscreen. Now, at home, viewers can see what all the fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense...
...best foreign-language films made by an aging action star. BEST ACTOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Blood Diamond RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson PETER O'TOOLE, Venus WILL SMITH, The Pursuit of Happyness FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland FOREST WHITAKER He's big, he's bad, he's Idi Amin Dada, the cannibal king. The soft-voiced Whitaker will win for his booming turn. LEONARDO DICAPRIO Right actor, not-quite-right movie. Leo was fine here as a diamond smuggler but even better in The Departed. SACHA BARON COHEN In the year's most brilliant, surely ballsiest performance, the Borat star...
...important. They have got to tell the world--and convince myself--that I am all there. Of course, there are the obvious jokes about brain surgery ("Well, it wasn't exactly rocket science") and about those wires in my head ("Can you hear me now?"). There is Dada ("I am the Defense Minister of Poland. Who the hell are you?"). And slapstick ("I feel as if I've lost 10 pounds ... uh oh"). I'm still working...