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...Krzysztof Kieslowski Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin Tarantino The most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium and its mad pash for melodrama. The movie still has the impact of an Adrenalin shot...
...plot has been, for the most part, mapped out since 1997—she forecasted danger before even Richard Clarke—she says she writes each book fresh as she goes, so it’s fair to call this what it is: post-9/11 fiction at its best...
...would if I needed a quick shorthand and I didn?t have time to explain the nuances. Personally, I would describe what I do as romantic comedies and light comic contemporary fiction...
...they were Times crosswords. Nick and his wife Nora (and their terrier Asta) were a dream family to a Depression audience in need of blithe fantasy. In six movies from 1934 to '47 (out on DVD next month), William Powell was a kind of F.D.R. of crime fiction and Myrna Loy was the suavest, most gracious wife ever...
Like his first and most popular work of fiction, “The Name of the Rose,” Eco’s new book presents itself as a kind of detective story. But here the author, whose nonfiction work centers on semiotics, seems to care less about providing coherent clues than about dazzling us with the sheer variety of his mind’s palette...