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...result is a decorous, resonant three-hour memory film, distilled from a six-hour TV mini-series. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a theology student who, it is said, "needs someone to love, so he won't hate himself so much." Anna (Pernilla Ostergren) is a bourgeois princess who finds flint beneath her gentility as she learns to love -- and forces herself to stay with -- this difficult man as he establishes his ministry in a small town. She must find comfort in moments of domestic grace: a chat with her loving father (Max von Sydow), a caress of her pregnant...
International TV programming is the great terra incognita for American viewers. The occasional British mini-series or Australian soap opera makes its way to these shores, via PBS or cable, and news sometimes filters back about the latest hit on Japanese TV or those funny foreign versions of Wheel of Fortune. But for most of the U.S. audience, TV in the non-English-speaking world remains trapped in the twilight zone...
...journey that began, at least symbolically, on a gloomy Sunday in Christchurch, New Zealand. Cooped up in a hotel room so dreary that he drank the contents of the mini-bar, Paul Theroux was continents away from his London home, newly separated from his wife, afraid that he might have cancer (not so, it turned out) and depressed by the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf. "Get me out of here," he said to himself and headed for the wilderness -- because, he wrote, "as long as there is wilderness there is hope...
Though the gang members have halted their internecine bloodletting for now, police point out that they have hardly become model citizens. According to the Reiner report, gang members commit six times as many crimes as people from similar backgrounds who do not belong to gangs. "Each one is a mini crime wave, and together they are a major crime wave," says Reiner. Opinions vary on what role gangs played in the riots, but there is no doubt that they were involved. Several gang members have been charged in the near fatal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Last week...
...Garage is a neon-and-linoleum mall with a video store and a wealth of downscale eateries. It's noisy, crowded, impersonal--in short, a lot like any modern mini-mall...