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...does accomplish one feat, however: it presents an oddly dull view of one of the most entertaining card games in existence—poker. In “Deal,” Cates revisits the world of gambling that was the subject of his 2000 film “$pent,” which portrayed the broken world of a gambler. That film’s narrative fell apart by trying to weave together too many loose ends; “Deal” collapses at the other extreme, failing to explore the inner lives of its characters and trudging...
...formula to Meyer's work, it holds true here: she rewrites stock horror plots as love stories, and in doing so, she makes them new again. She writes vampire novels without the biting and science fiction without the lasers. Instead, she slows down the action, tapping it for the pent-up emotional drama that's always been present in it but had been all but invisible until she came along. "That's what I like about science fiction," Meyer says. "It's the same thing I like about Shakespeare. You take people, put them in a situation that...
...axiom," the French film critic Michel Mourlet famously wrote in a 1960 Cahiers du Cinema essay so acute and fervid that we have to quote a bit more of it. "He constitutes a tragedy in himself, his presence in any film being enough to instill beauty. The pent-up violence expressed by the somber phosphorescence of his eyes, his eagle's profile, the imperious arch of his eyebrows, the hard, bitter curve of his lips, the stupendous strength of his torso - this is what he has been given, and what not even the worst of directors can debase... Through...
...express solidarity with a long-planned "Dharamsala to Lhasa" march that started on March 10, as hundreds of yellow and brown Tibetan flags fluttered in the wind. "We had hoped for this response," says Sherab Woeser, one of the coordinators of the march. "But now that the pent-up anger and frustration are out, we need to find a way to manage...
...years of pent-up curiosity would finally be satiated--at least a little. I've covered this country on and off for almost two decades--from Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai--but despite repeated requests for a visa, I'd never been allowed in. Perhaps this was because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we're still technically at war with North Korea. More likely it was because my stories about this little-known country had not exactly flattered its despotic rulers: the late Great Leader Kim Il Sung and his son, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Now, thanks...