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...Part of the film's fascination, at least to those unfamiliar with Vergès, is its novelty; the story is fresh, epic, and challenging to all preconceptions about the use of violence for political purposes. To what extent, Schroeder asks, do individuals practice terrorism and countries practice military diplomacy, when both actions end in the deaths of dozens, or millions, of innocents? The filmmaker has no easy answers; no answers at all; and that moral dilemma hangs over the viewer of Terror's Advocate long after the specific horrors of A Mighty Heart will have receded into the mists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Hearts and Dark Deeds | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

Watching a film you haven't seen before, you come to know it as you would a new acquaintance. It moves along, taking you into its confidence by following certain well-worn paths - it's a buddy comedy or a domestic drama or a space epic. These paths create expectations, which the standard Hollywood picture is bound to satisfy. Familiarity breeds complicity. But there are some movies that, in the middle of the story or later, take turns, make strange twists, as if to say, like that new acquaintance, Don't presume you know me. I am not what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Twisty Delights | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...crowd hasn't done Romario much good - he's gone four games now without scoring, since bagging number 999 on March 25. His next chance comes on Sunday, when Vasco hosts Sport. Thousands are expected to turn out to see him search for that elusive Gol Mil. Expect an epic celebration when he does; if there is one thing Romario does even better than score goals, it's party - and this party town will be happy to provide the platform. After all, everyone loves a malandro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Braces for a (Bogus) Soccer Milestone | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...Skies and Blueberry Nights Rethinking the Art of Subtitles Sicko is Socko Three Twisty Delights Archive All-TIME 100 Movies "We discussed with the studio [Fox Searchlight] how to make the movie more entertaining for English-speaking audiences," says director Timur Bekmambetov of the first in his three-part epic trilogy. "We thought of the subtitles as another character in the film, another way to tell the story." Times have certainly changed since the frustrating days of unreliable, white-on-white subtitles, randomly unreadable and restricted to art house films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking the Art of Subtitles | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

...marriage will set up an epic clash for the $12.5 billion market providing news and, more importantly, financial data to the world's financial services industries. Adding Reuters' 23% of the financial data market to Thomson's 11% would give the combined entity 34%, pushing it ahead of the current market leader, Bloomberg, which accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does Rivals' Merging Mean For Bloomberg? | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

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