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...response was tepid. No Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom, was a gung-ho action picture. Nor has the public's apathy abated. The Best Picture, Director and Screenplay awards that The Hurt Locker won on Oscar night served only as a gigantic promotion for the movie's DVD. In theaters it was the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner of all time. (See the top 10 war movies...
Maybe Green Zone will be the breakthrough. Set in the first months of the U.S. occupation, the film has a churning urgency and a fierce verisimilitude, courtesy of director Paul Greengrass (United 93) and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker). Shot in Spain, Morocco and the U.K., the film straps you into a Baghdad state of mind. It's hell at 130°, with dust and dread tarping the streets as if to smother anyone who'd attempt to escape. Murderous intent abounds on both the U.S. and Saddam-loyalist sides; life is cheap, and the stakes are high...
...absolutely deserving ... Not because she's a woman and not because she's a woman who makes stereotypically 'guy' movies, but because The Hurt Locker was a damn good movie and she was the primary reason it worked ... The fact that it took 82 years for the Academy to give the Best Director award to a female filmmaker should be cause for shame and embarrassment, rather than self-lionizing accolades." --3/8/10
...wasn’t only poor shooting that hurt the Crimson, but poor shot selection as well. Nineteen of Harvard’s 28 first-half shots were three-point attempts, only five of which connected...
...Other countries would still be prohibited from trading with Japan, but with those $50-per-kilo ticket prices, less scrupulous nations might have been enticed into breaking the agreement. "It would have only increased the black market, and the countries that would have been most hurt by it would be the ones following the law - which is to say the European Union," Garat adds. (See "Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows...