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...addition to roles in more than 70 other films. His drinking landed him in bar brawls and headlines in his midcentury heyday, and eventually sidelined his career. A comeback in the '80s and '90s culminated in his role as a gang leader in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime drama Reservoir Dogs...
...institute and its film festival, which began in 1985, have brought to light such audacious talents as Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), and provided a valuable antidote to Hollywood in its post-Jaws era of quick thrills and saturation bookings. But while moviegoers have benefited from Sundance, the institute has exacted a high price from its godfather. "Sundance turned out to be something far more personal than I ever imagined," says Redford, who has poured much energy into developing labs for screenwriting, directing, theater and music, as well...
...supply with a few tablets of some very lethal substance. But while the idea has a long history (Roman legionnaires tossed animal corpses into the water supplies of their enemies), the tactic isn't very practical. Even in high concentrations, germs would probably be quickly diluted in a large reservoir, if not killed off later during chlorination...
...Rush Hour and Romeo Must Die is thankfully absent, with the actors essaying roles and not racial caricatures. There are no Ebonics or broken accents found here. Nor does he fall into the trap of simply repeating what came before. For example, countless other films from Reservoir Dogs to Kiss of the Dragon have been nothing more than slick re-makes of Hong Kong movies. The One is neither. It is in a class all by itself...
...years of toil have given Chen the broad shoulders and sturdy frame of a man decades younger. But despite his brawn, he is powerless to save his home from the rising waters of the $20 billion dam project. The world's largest reservoir, 550 km long, will displace 2 million peasants, including Chen, who is tight-lipped about this coming progress. "If you think the dam is bad," he says, "best you don't say anything at all." He's far more voluble about the old path, which will also be submerged, and the way he used to drag...