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...Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone's forgotten about it. But even now, whenever my name appears in any U.S. publication, it's prefaced with 'Oscar-winning documentary maker ? ' In Britain, you get knighted. In the U.S., you get an Oscar. It's a title which you will thenceforth carry with you forever...
...Today Hizballah will tell you this is all ancient history, a chapter in Lebanon's civil war best forgotten. Autres temps, autres moeurs. They will point out that during last summer's war Hizballah didn't touch a hair of a single American, even though the United States was fully behind the retaliatory Israeli bombardment of Hizballah. (The fact that Hizballah didn't kidnap or kill Americans is a distinction without a difference for Israeli civilians killed by Hizballah Katushka rockets...
Maybe the midterm election was just about Iraq, and maybe by 2008 that will be over and forgotten, and the conservative long march to hegemony will resume. Or maybe American voters are sorry they ran away from home and are ready to return to liberalism. But neither of these seems likely, does it? Americans want something new. But what...
...more than the momentary adrenaline rush that comes with scoring the "it" handbag? Can it make a lasting impression? Designers are under such intense pressure these days to produce commercial merchandise or sign their names to fast-fashion emporiums like H&M and Target that they seem to have forgotten about one of fashion's vital mandates: fantasy...
...commissioned a brilliant young painter to create posters of the films on view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap from the walls in vibrant hues. This is one kind of movie colorizing that deserves sustained applause...