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...India, with its desolate yet rich scenery, is also particularly adept. In a telling directorial move, Anderson almost incorporates the three alienated brothers, wearing “tilak” marks on their foreheads and flowers around their necks, into the foreign landscape. The careful pairing of slow-motion shots with music—one of Anderson’s many filmmaking signatures—is especially effective here. The opening uses the technique to give the film its name, showing Brody rush past Bill Murray’s character to catch a train?...
...there are signs that public deference is fading. In the spring, the Catalan Republican Left party promoted a bill that would require the royal family, which annually receives around $10 million in public funds, to turn over their financial records. That motion was defeated, but it didn't stop the same party from last month raising a new proposal that would shift the position of Commander in Chief, which historically has belonged to the King, from the monarch to the Prime Minister. Beyond the maneuverings of an avowedly republican party, other signs of change have appeared. In July, a weekly...
...peaceful separation of Kosovo from Serbia. But Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders are on the verge of scuppering the already deadlocked talks by unilaterally declaring independence. And Serbia, backed by Russia, remains loudly opposed to Kosovo's independence under any circumstances. "We're looking at a slow-motion train wreck," says Tomas Valasek, a Balkan specialist at the London-based Centre for European Reform. While a new war is unlikely, and there is a slim chance that a deal could be salvaged, the Balkans appear poised once again to reveal the stark limits of international diplomacy...
...years ago, Lee won a Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, a less explicit but no less passionate story of two gay cowboys. He took that cachet and banked it on a Mandarin-language drama that has earned the Motion Picture Association's NC-17 rating (no children under 17). That rating will keep Lust, Caution out of many cinemas because lots of theater owners won't show films with a rating harder than R. Nor, if current standards hold, will the dvd be available at Wal-Mart or Blockbuster. But the $83 million theatrical take of Brokeback makes some...
...response to one question he explained that the movie received a PG rather than a G rating because it contains two or three images of NASA employees smoking. The Motion Picture Association of America, after receiving threats of legislative action by antismoking groups and state attorneys general, now considers smoking in its rating system...