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...world, cops, criminals and civilians alike are incompetent, brutal or both. There are no bullet ballets, no climactic face-offs in dove-filled churches or exploding fireworks factories. Even if To's comedic ear occasionally goes tone-deaf (I have a hard time laughing at a cop stomping a teenage triad to the brink of death, which To plays for slapstick), PTU is a refreshing subversion of an entire Hong Kong genre of films that seek easy heroism in rogue cops out for justice and sharply dressed gangsters who live by the code. In PTU there is no code...
Lewis’ unexpected ouster leaves the council leaders worrying that they won’t have the administrative conduit and open ear that, many say, has facilitated the groups rise to greater legitimacy over the past few years...
...OFA’s responsibility for undergraduate programming. When founding director Mayman departed two years ago, the OFA again moved down the hierarchy to report to Lewis. And while arts administrators agree that the OFA has a strong working relationship with Illingworth, they stress the importance of having the ear of senior level administrators who allocate resources. “The higher the reporting relationship, the stronger the message,” the OFA’s Engel says. “I think there would be a gross inequity in perception and in actuality for that reporting relationship...
...left hand?he lost the others in a B-41 rocket attack that killed six of his fellow Hmong. His leg still bleeds from a suppurating shrapnel wound he received 13 years ago. One side of his face is a mask of melted flesh, with black sockets where an ear and an eye should be. "Everybody is dead," he says. "Sixteen people in my family are dead, all killed by the communists." In a heartbreaking refrain I heard repeatedly during my stay in the camp, he adds, "America must save...
...next day we screen his latest, Shadow Kill. The print has no English subtitles, but Adoor provides a running translation, whispering the laconic dialogue in my ear. "A film like Shadow Kill demands many viewings to be understood," he says. An antideath-penalty parable with the pacing of a Greek tragedy, Shadow Kill is also visually rich, steeped in the verdant colors of the postmonsoon tropics. A veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer...