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...your job, as happened to millions of people during the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Modern capitalists can move their money in and out of different countries around the world at the speed of a mouse click. Democratic countries find that their options for political choice--whether in the realm of social policy, economic regulation or culture--are curtailed by the increased mobility of financial capital and information. Do you want to extend your social safety net a bit further? The faceless bond market will zap your country's interest rates. Do you want to prevent your airwaves from being...
...anyone with a pulse and half a brain-regards such reporting with healthy skepticism. We never know how staged and contrived these events really are. But with Nachtwey, our cynicism gives way to empathy, and our skepticism to sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying in the streets and we cannot look away...
...Knight is an icon who stands tall on the otherwise flat Indiana landscape. He makes alumni proud - and proud alumni send big, fat checks to the university development office. And luckily for Knight, his is the twisted realm of collegiate athletics, where the NCAA is king and where anyone who uses the word "responsible" is well advised to keep a dictionary handy...
...comfortable _Manhattan Murder Mystery_ feel - a plot that's more of a concept than a real, unfolding story; characters that thrive on invention rather than reality. I can't quite figure out why, but these goofy movies - the ones that have no other purpose than to carve out a realm of fantasy in the corners of New York drudgery - are my favorite Woody Allen movies...
...fantasy, but why does that make it a "silly" film, as you've called it? You never seem to give yourself any credit. You've said that your work isn't art - what about your films places them outside the realm of art and you outside the definition of an artist...