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Based on the 1955 Graham Greene novel, Phillip Noyce's intimate epic dramatizes the mundane face of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Its release has been delayed, but Oscar-minded Miramax had better get it out by the end of the year. As an Englishman whose political scruples lead him...
Doyle had two excellent films at Toronto, both directed by fellow-Aussie Phillip Noyce: The Quiet American, an acute adaptation of Grahame Greene's Vietnam novel with a lovely performance by Michael Caine; and Rabbit-Proof Fence, about aboriginal girls abducted into white families. Doyle's cinematography is a work...
Isn't it always the way? You wait for a major sporting competition to come along, and three show up at the same time. At least they did last week in Spain. In the space of a few days the World Cup in athletics got off the blocks in Madrid...
Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on...
I can't believe I ate the whole thing. Flick your Bic. I love New York. It's not Shakespeare, but advertising in the '60s seemed to fuel the Zeitgeist as much as movies or music. The slogans above were the work of Mary Wells Lawrence, the original girl in...