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...it’s unfaithful to the film. Even on its own terms, the play is severely handicapped. Stern’s directorial choices seem to be at war with his script’s content. He insists on directing the show as if its lines revealed a gripping plot, even though the vast bulk of the text deals primarily with detailed character-study and sociological observation...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debut of ‘Darko’ Disappoints at ART | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...surprising, then, that a corner the cemetery has been set aside for Maradona. Boca's most famous player has been awarded a plot free of the charge from the club, although he has made no public comment regarding the gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Season Ticket for the Cemetery | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...Lower the Movie into This Plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...that the only agreement that can be reached is that Peter Høeg’s work is hard to place.In answer to accusations of obscurity, Høeg advises us to read his book again. “I had a lot of time to work [the plot] together into something very condensed. I felt I was taking the reader to the edge; I might have gone farther than I realised.” Though Høeg may have had a decade to write the novel, now available in English thanks to a translation by Nadia Christensen...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Høeg’s ‘Quiet Girl’ Too Loud | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...experience the barren vistas of south Texas as McCarthy intended—an antediluvian void where angels exist, but far more devils can be found. In the midst of the total quiet, tension swells, revelations spread, and the great, monolithic equilibrium of chance reigns free. Set in 1980, the plot centers around Josh Brolin’s character, a hunter and Vietnam veteran who stumbles upon a suitcase containing several million dollars, left in the desert unclaimed when a drug deal goes bad. Brolin quickly finds himself in the crosshairs of unsavory bounty hunters, as the movers of the product...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Country For Old Men | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

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