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...Volver, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette - all had their adherents, but many others who expressed disappointment or derision. This was a festival with no consensus masterpiece. A few smaller movies got high praise, perhaps because they scaled modest peaks, while the more ambitious works, depending on the individual response, either soared or crashed. Start at the top, with Volver. After two flat-out great films (All About My Mother and Talk to Her) and the crafty, corrosive Bad Education, Almodóvar carried a massive burden of expectations...
...yesterday's follow-up press luncheon, writer-director Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey) was modest but confident. He knows the uphill battle faced by any movie musical, particularly one with songs that rise from the story; audiences have a hard time accepting a character who talks one moment, sings the next. (The last film musical of this kind to be a hit? Condon has the depressing answer: Grease, nearly 30 years ago.) But the director - who also was screenwriter for that other hit movie musical anomaly Chicago - is counting on the marquee appeal of Foxx, Knowles and Murphy to bring...
There is nothing wrong with Amtrak that a modest but consistent amount of capital investment couldn’t cure. Virtually every region of the country has detailed plans for major improvements in the Amtrak system if the Bush administration would wake up and understand that we desperately need a first-class rail passenger system in this country...
...more surprising considering much of it was fine-tuned from a modest warehouse in Sydney's inner-west. "It's the nervous center at the moment," jokes Australian architect Peter Lonergan, the commission's project manager, who for the past year has employed up to 10 scenic painters, enamel firers and glass cutters to bring the artists' dreams to reality. Late last month, Time was given an exclusive preview of the work in its final stages before being freighted off to Paris for installation. With 2,500 sq m of public art, "every square millimeter involves a number of really...
...access, Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse told TIME: "We don't discuss internal decision-making processes." In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that was obtained by TIME, Senate Judiciary chairman Specter complained, "I cannot understand why the department has denied the clearances necessary for this degree of modest, internal oversight. I urge you to reconsider this decision...