Word: olcott
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...Nigeria persist. Nazarbayev's government has signaled it wants a more active role in managing those vast resources. In 2003, it decreed that the state oil company, KazMunaiGaz, must be a 50% stakeholder in all new domestic oil and gas ventures. "This is not renationalization," says Martha Brill Olcott, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington and an expert on the Caspian region. "This is re-evaluation. Kazakhstan is learning to play with the big boys. This is the Kazakh definition of national interest." The government's move doesn't necessarily amount to a Yukos-style...
...Here is the first major film on the Jesus story, and probably the earliest feature-length film - 1hr.12min. in its restored version - made in America. Directed by Sidney Olcott (who made 18 other shorter films that year) and written by its Mary Magdalene, Gene Gauntier, the picture was shot in Palestine and Egypt. One charming shot shows Mary and Joseph sitting in front of the Sphinx. Virtually every shot is a static scene, a tableau, illustrating the intertitles...
...Like Gibson, but 92 years before him, Olcott uses a blue filter for the Holy Thursday night scenes in Gethsemane. The Passion section, which consumes the last 14 minutes, has no more juice than the rest of the film. Back then, of course, directors didn't have access to the fake-blood squibs and other effects of today's gore artists. (The blood Mel used was fake, wasn't it?) Remember, too, that in 1912 film was in its infancy; that D.W. Griffith and others were still creating the medium's visual vocabulary and sentence structure; and that, for most...