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...Barmak started by gathering scraps of discarded filmstrip from the garbage bins of movie theaters, taping them together and putting on screenings for his friends. "I even charged them," he chuckles. His passion earned him a scholarship to Moscow's prestigious All-Union State Cinema Institute in 1981 (Afghanistan was then under Soviet control), and a decade later he landed the directorship of the government-run Afghan Film Studio in Kabul. When the Taliban took the city, Barmak fled to the north, where he made documentaries for the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was later assassinated...
There is often a bleak beauty to Marooned in Iraq's landscapes. But pictorialism aside, it is a unique experience--abrupt, jagged, almost childlike in its ever shifting tones. Driven equally by wayward and bestartling incidents that blow up and blow away, and by an old man's abiding passion, it's a film that is exotic in its rhythms yet utterly comprehensible in its humanity. You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort. --By Richard Schickel
Ledlie’s passion for bringing the joys of cycling to the Harvard community is laudable. Quad Bikes will feature a number of unconventional services, including the rehabilitation of old or broken bikes and their parts, an important money-saving step that will increase the number of functioning bicycles on campus. Quad Bikes’ stated intention to fix bikes for free and run tutorials on bike maintenance also shows that it is more committed to education and outreach than pinching pennies to meet the bottom line...
...fire: newsrooms in New York City and Washington fizzed each time he tossed a new scoop on the table--the grape stem found at a murder scene with suspect Lee Boyd Malvo's DNA on it, his supposed videotaped confession. Some of Blair's colleagues argue that the competitive passion that has driven some of the paper's recent triumphs, particularly its coverage of 9/11, may also have left the impression on an impressionable reporter that getting beat is worse than getting it wrong. "The story gets handed to anybody who gets hot," says one. "There's no talk about...
...humiliate prim decorator Doris, playboy Rock masquerades as a sweet-natured Texan) and Sex and the Single Girl (to humiliate prim sex-book author Natalie Wood, magazine writer Tony Curtis feigns being a frustrated husband seeking counseling). Now as then, the two leads must run the gamut of passion, rancor and against-their-wills romance--all in glam Manhattan penthouses (Barbara's digs were inspired by the How to Marry a Millionaire set), where the not-quite lovers swig martinis to the underscoring of wisecracking trombones...