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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...style that predominates in current high-art festival films - films that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses - is minimalist. Springing from the works of great directors like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, minimalism follows certain rules, as restrictive as Mennonite edicts. Pare down movie technique to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make viewers work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and - from directors who know how to make more of less - a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Light: Small Masterpiece | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...America's chief antagonist in the hemisphere, is unpatriotic and simply aids his anti-U.S. foreign policy. Democrats and advocates for the poor disagree. In a website video for Boston-based Citizens Energy, which helps distribute the Citgo oil, director Joseph Kennedy, son of Senator Robert Kennedy, says, "Some people say it's bad politics to [accept the fuel]. I say it's a crime against humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Big Oil Match Hugo Chávez? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...usual, this feature was smart, irreverent and entertaining. Maybe you could also have added "Top 10 Magnifying-Glass Manufacturers?" Type as small as that is usually found at the bottom of legal documents. Robert Wilson, PORDENONE, ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The List Issue: Best and Worst | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...talents to do all those things as well as Elena has done them over the past six years,” he said.During her time at the Law School, Kagan has taught constitutional and administrative law. She became dean after just two years as a full professor, succeeding Robert C. Clark in 2003.Kagan clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Appeals Court Judge Abner Mikva before serving as a domestic policy adviser under President Clinton.The announcement marks a continuation of Obama’s push to put in place his cabinet and key advisers as soon as possible...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Kagan Picked for D.C. Post | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

Minnesotan Brian Becker, who was already on probation for deer-smuggling in Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in November. Agents estimated that he had made at least $300,000 smuggling deer to one client in Texas. Houston businessman Robert Eichenaur was sentenced to 18 months in jail and hit with a $50,000 fine. Eichenaur was described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as the owner of a "posh hunting ranch" in the small east Texas town of Bedias. The ranch, Circle E, advertises exotic hunts and charges $12,000 or more for a large white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Deer Being Smuggled into Texas? | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

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