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...that matter, why didn't anyone think of playing a rogue CIA agent the way Johnny Depp does? He's polite, dry witted, a bit of a gourmet, but also a master schemer and a psycho who thinks nothing of offing a chef who has offended him. It's an alarmingly funny performance by a fabulously daring actor, and it sets the tone for a movie that is not to be taken seriously--except as a bedazzling step forward in the admittedly amoral aesthetics of violence...
LAZARUS ZIM Mine Master...
...block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag a cab. One Toronto taxi driver-we'll call him Mohsen-launched into a passionate lecture on the state of Iranian cinema, listing the names of Iranian directors who had new work on show. "Of course the master is Kiarostami," he said, as if that name would be as familiar to his passengers as Spielberg...
...even more furiously. It's insanely vigorous fun that's guaranteed to delight video action fans on four continents. Kim Ki Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring starts as a tale of spiritual apprenticeship (boy taught by old monk) that might have come from the contemplative Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu; then this Korean film spirals into obsession and murder but without ever upsetting its gorgeously subtle cinematic palette...
Though boxing eventually became a club sport, he continued to help Harvard athletes master everything from the quick jab to endurance runs...