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Amenities: Golf at the Woburn Country Club (30 min. away); fitness center, complimentary access to not-so-nice health spa, Candela; Chanel boutique...
Saves: Cor--Bullard (35 min.) 8, Sullivan (35 min.) 5; Har--Cowan (60 min.) 8, Marks (10 min...
...shot in 1915, the year of The Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith's epic, a masterpiece of film form, creaks today. But Les Vampires, with thrill upon stunt upon criminal chicanery, is as modern as Rush Hour or The X Files. In Waterbearer Films' ravishing 6-hr. 40-min. video edition, restored by David Shepard with its color tinting and long-lost intertitles, Les Vampires is revealed as the prototype and apotheosis of every hurtling action film and devious crime thriller to follow...
...somehow Touch of Evil offers even more after those historic first three min- utes. Welles capitalizes on the B-movie budgetand fuses his technical limitations with thestory, creating a cohesive alienation. Combiningthe distortion of an 18.5 mm lens, the dizzyingdiscomfort of handheld cameras, the high contrastimages of low lighting, and the frighteninglyenormous figures produced by low angle shots, thefilm replaces surface normality with theunsettling...
Commercial passengers also enjoy less protection from toxic smoke than those on corporate planes. After years of study, airlines still balk at installing individual smoke hoods that could provide each passenger with up to 30 min. of clean air. (Market leader Essex PB&R Corp. of Edwardsville, Ill., offers eight different versions at prices ranging from $160 to $750.) Nor has the FAA mandated hoods for passengers, although crews of commercial airlines have them. The airlines and FAA argue that smoke hoods could make it more difficult for passengers to evacuate a plane. Of course, that can also be difficult...