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...which is banned in the communist country because it paints the North Vietnamese as merciless killers. Duong is guilty of "distorting the history of Vietnam," according to Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Information Department officials, who dislike the movie's depiction of the November, 1965 battle of Ia Drang as a U.S. victory. Vietnamese historians say their side won the battle, the first face-off between the U.S. Army and NVA regulars...
...viewer of Raging Bull does not need to know the first thing about Jake LaMotta the real man, nor even the first thing about boxing, for the film achieves its greatness through its aesthetic brilliance and through its touching metadiscourse on the sturm und drang of the human soul. Of course, the film also benefits greatly from an incredible performance by Robert De Niro—but in the end the legacy of Raging Bull is that of a surpassing work of art, rather than a piece centered around one performance...
...delicious and complex can of worms: it is, on the one hand, about making accessible the privileged visual psychology of a single individual-about lending one's own personal metaphysical lens to others. It is, at the same time, about an incommunicable intra-personal struggle, the sturm und drang plight of the soul and the extent to which its subjective experience is completely inexpressible...
...Which shows exactly why all the Sturm und Drang over the White House's supply-side prescription for meeting the U.S.' next-few-decades energy needs is a bit misplaced: Dick Cheney isn't throwing money at Big Energy, he's just throwing open the gates. The folks that will design the U.S. power picture over the next decade or two will be the energy companies themselves - and that means it'll all come down to we, the consumer...
...midst of Millionaire hype, Disney launched a PC game version of its hit network game show and trotted out Regis to promote it. But he was way out of his element. Rather than stop the show, he was swallowed up in it, obscured by all the sturm und drang of post-televisual entertainment...