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Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of Davao City, is sitting in his favorite bar, After Dark, a glass of brandy in front of him, a .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He's wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt loudly adorned with wine bottles and bunches of red and green grapes?the same outfit he wore to work. While other guests take turns singing along with the piano player, Duterte tells a strange and disturbing story. In 1993, Davao's San Pedro Cathedral was hit with three grenades during an evening Mass. Six parishioners were killed. The attackers were Muslim...
...exhausted. He's a notoriously choosy actor who usually appears in just one movie a year, yet his brooding mug will flicker through five films in the next 12 months. Missing Gun?a fast-paced crime flick about a small town cop whose frantic search for his stolen pistol unearths a web of provincial vice?is Jiang's first appearance in a film since Devils on the Doorstep, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. Two years ago, Devils, a black-and-white masterpiece about the Japanese occupation of a Chinese village in the 1930s, won the Grand Prix...
...fraught year, had to be a film about victims and survivors. For The Pianist's Szpilman (well played by Adrien Brody) and the half-million other Jews sardined into the Ghetto, the issue of individual survival was as capricious as the number of shells left in a Nazi's pistol. Great atrocities follow intimate ones; soon they had to ask whether European Jewry itself could survive. Polanski's view is unsentimental and acute; it focuses on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Some reports say that by war's end only 20 Jews were still alive...
...kill the man who broke into our home late that night—I did not even fire my pistol. He turned and ran because he assumed (correctly) that I was willing to shoot him to defend my wife and family. In that regard, our experience is similar to the vast majority of defensive gun uses each year. A gun can protect someone just by its very presence...
...could say how Steinhauser's expulsion might have turned a calm, reasonable guy into a murderer--or whether some other factor might have been involved. Whatever the reason, Steinhauser showed up late Friday morning armed with a pistol and a pump-action shotgun and began blowing away his victims. Police were on the scene just a few minutes after he began, alerted by a phone call from the school custodian. As they approached the building, Steinhauser leaned out of a window and shot officer Andreas Gorski in the head, killing him instantly. Then the gunman resumed his spree, which ended...