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Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her Oscar-winning work. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Centauri whiskey to the natives. There, he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer, and the pair are soon discovering the culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers a career performance, donning the hats of weary voyager...
Irish native John Crowley handles the 11 interlinked stories and 54 characters so deftly in his directorial debut that the movie successfully delivers an almost unrelenting barrage of comedy, romance and excitement and earns comparisons to Robert Altman’s best work. John (Cillian Murphy) is inarticulate, unsure of what he wants and desperately insecure. As a result, he decides to “test” his girlfriend Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) by breaking up with her, an action that has consequences for everyone in their small Dublin suburb. Simultaneous to the romantic drama, another local suburbanite, Lehiff (Colin...
...Betak is venturing into the world of furniture design with the debut of his first collection, on view at the Milan furniture fair from April 14 to May 8. "It was a quite natural continuation of what I do," says Betak, who has no plans to give up his work for the runway. Named for its construction in highly polished, heavy Lucite, Clear de Betak consists of a bookcase ($7,800) and a bench covered in supple black leather ($6,000). Both pieces demonstrate the same mischievous quality as Betak's notorious runway creations. A trichromatic lighting system makes...
...decimated Afghanistan's athletic program. In 1999, it was banned from the Olympics for its discrimination against women; only in 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, was it reinstated. The country has never won an Olympic medal and, until an Afghan woman named Lima Azimi made her debut as a sprinter in Paris last summer, had entered the World Track and Field Championship only once in 20 years. Azimi's 18.37 seconds for the 100 m left her half a track behind her competitors, but her entry into the international arena enabled Afghanistan to qualify for Athens. Azimi decided...
With Walking Tall, Johnson extends his convincing farewell to the days of five-minute mostly-mute bit parts, exemplified by his debut role as the Scorpion King in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. The journey began with the 2002 Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King and continued with last year’s The Rundown, for which he received a fair amount of critical praise. Johnson, however, was not content to expand just his acting chops in only his third lead role in a feature film, and he relished the opportunity to creatively contribute to Walking Tall from...