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...Since September, when the LAPD appointed a board of inquiry to investigate misdeeds in its anti-gang Rampart CRASH unit, a portrait has emerged of police power run amok on a horrifying scale. The investigation centers on the testimony of turncoat cop Rafael Perez, a Rampart CRASH officer who squealed after he was caught stealing cocaine from an evidence room. A cover story in Thursday's L.A. Times, for which the paper received exclusive access to Internal Affairs and D.A. documents of Perez's testimony, lists such police infractions as beating and framing innocent people, using deadly force against unarmed...
Indeed, it represents something of a leap forward for Campion from the strained improbabilities of The Piano, the choked feminism of Portrait of a Lady. There's a looseness about Holy Smoke! that's not quite improvisatory but not entirely locked down either. This spirit freshens the film and gives it somewhat the quality of being surprised at its own journey...
...real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That may be true, but the fuller explanation lies in Toobin's damning portrait of Starr. There was no need, the book suggests, for a conspiracy to throw the republic off course. One recklessly unrestrained special prosecutor can do it almost single-handedly...
Neither can Vermeer's sharp-eyed mother-in-law and his perpetually pregnant wife, particularly after she learns that her earring is the same as the one worn by Greit in her portrait. But the truth is loftier than a studio tryst between artist and model. In fact, Chevalier's version is sexier: an exquisitely controlled exercise that illustrates how temptation is restrained for the sake...
Every seven years since 1963, England has sat for its group portrait. A dozen seven-year-olds chosen then, and revisited in documentaries as they grew up, express the nation's cheerful willingness to settle for less than the big dream. (At least, that's what they say on camera. The Brits have such lovely manners, don't they?) A few have lived abroad, but all remain captives of a society still largely defined by class. Apted, whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant...