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...very near future, the French have cordoned off their housing projects, sites of immigrant crime and anger. They're even contemplating a nuclear final solution to their problem. That's the pretext director Pierre Morel uses to reinvent the action film with gracefully soaring chases and grittily imaginative confrontations--no CGI, very little wire work, just a subtle, clever use of off-speed cameras and canny editing. The result is a movie that makes all its American competitors look klutzy and flat-footed. Maybe it isn't exactly art, but it sure is kinesthetically dazzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best Movies | 12/20/2006 | See Source »

...integral part of the California dining scene for more than two decades. In this book, her third, she culls the best small plates from each of her restaurants, including starters, soups and sweets. Among them are light and airy gougères, silky-smooth corn custards topped with buttery morel mushrooms and delicately spiced lamb burgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Restaurant Cookbooks to Keep You Dining In | 7/24/2006 | See Source »

...film is written by Luc Besson, the darkly innovative--sometimes too much so--director of films like La Femme Nikita, and directed by longtime cameraman Pierre Morel. Raffaelli and Belle are veteran stuntmen, and their scenes are overcranked--150 frames a second instead of the usual 24--with the pace then slowed down in postproduction to achieve an extraordinarily graceful effect. When they fight, which is often, the editing is superb, with the cuts landing precisely on action and reaction. It's amazing how these simple devices, used intermittently in other films, energize District B13. The film never pauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Fun, French and Bloody | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...often find their way into the ice cream made in its adjacent sister shop, in the much-touted Christina’s Ice Cream. Aside from the wide array of whole and ground spices available, Christina’s also stocks dried fruits and vegetables. Go for the dried morel mushrooms—these extremely porous fungi are expensive but worth...

Author: By Diana E. Garvin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To Market, To Market | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...often find their way into the ice cream made in its adjacent sister shop, in the much-touted Christina’s Ice Cream. Aside from the wide array of whole and ground spices available, Christina’s also stocks dried fruits and vegetables. Go for the dried morel mushrooms—these extremely porous fungi are expensive but worth...

Author: By Diana E. Garvin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To Market, To Market | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

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