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...challenge. "You want to write tight, but you don't want to write so tight that the meaning gets lost for people who're not familiar with the story," he says. "What I'm trying to do is to make sure there is enough drama in every twepisode, so to speak. There's a cliffhanger, wherever possible." (Read TIME's cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...Landa asks one of the ladies for her shoe and, at a restaurant, orders milk for the other, you feel nooses tightening around their necks and yours. In these scenes and another in a basement bar where the smallest wrong gesture cues a bloodbath, Tarantino shows how to achieve drama through whispers and forced smiles. The parallel plot of a budding romance between Shosanna and a German war hero (Daniel Brühl) has a similar trajectory - the pot simmers, then the lid blows off - and the same artful mix of subtlety and surprise. These vignettes work much better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Stalking History and Hitler | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...MARCH: HOUSING DRAMA...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calendar of Your Year Ahead | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...that I like. The thing I probably miss most of all is that people in Iowa have a different, genuine quality and a self-sufficient humility, a desire to do things for themselves and not complain. I miss being around people that don't complain. I'm in the drama business, and there are a lot of dramatic people that seem to be not very happy with where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ashton Kutcher | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...film era that thinks sentiment is a big silly joke, The Time Traveler's Wife may be as out of its time as poor Henry. But for viewers aching for a romantic drama that leaves them emotionally, honorably exhausted, this could prove a total immersion in star-crossed love, if not perfect synchronicity. As with Titanic, the movie's fans could end up watching it time after time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Traveler's Wife: Love, Death and More Love | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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