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There are two sorts of British movie - the kind that wins awards, and the kind that makes money. Lynne Ramsay has been known for writing and directing the first kind since 1995, when Small Deaths, a short she made in film school, won the Prix du Jury at Cannes. Her third short, Gasman, took the big prize at Cannes too and the 32-year-old Scot's first full-length film, Ratcatcher, became an art-house hit. But with her latest effort, a psycho road movie called Morvern Callar, Ramsay may finally be positioned for box-office success. Her movie...
...lost her sister, father and brother as well. Dalsimer finds the recurring pain of these losses throughout Woolf’s writings, paying special attention to the way Woolf’s work deals with the death of her mother. Dalsimer sets the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay, the matriarch of the family in To The Lighthouse, and Lily Briscoe, the artist figure in the novel, as a paradigm for Woolf’s own relationship with her mother. In this way, Dalsimer is able to extrapolate and interpret the emotions that consumed Woolf throughout her development as a writer...
...hear that the subject is the growing pains of a boy (William Eadie) in an infested slum during the 1970s Glasgow garbage collectors' strike, you may bolt from the theater, saying, "I gave at the office." Stay, all the way to the magical-tragical ending. Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama. She sees that kids aren't good or bad; they are exactly as weak, dreamy, vicious and stranded as the rest of us. Ratcatcher sears; it is hard to take, hard to shake...
...hardware but the software: the interface, program databases, associated content like TV "magazines" to guide users and advertising. (Neither system currently shows ads, but each has discussed future possibilities, including sponsorships.) "Our strategy is to embed it into other boxes," says TiVo CEO and cofounder Mike Ramsay. "We're going to build it into television sets and DVD players...It will eventually get embedded into every device." Ultimately, several companies will manufacture the boxes under license. Philips currently makes TiVo's box, and this month TiVo signed another deal with Sony; Replay has a similar agreement with Panasonic...
Here we go again. Once more we are being told humans are nothing more than apes without fur. AMY D. RAMSAY Sellersville...