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...List), director Edward Zwick ’74 (“The Last Samurai,” “Blood Diamond”) surprises the audience by examining the Holocaust from an original angle. In a story of survival, Daniel Craig (“Casino Royale??), as Tuvia Bielski, becomes a symbol of hope as he leads a large community of Jewish refugees hiding in the forests of Belarus. Based on a true story, “Defiance” narrates Tuvia’s journey as he and his followers attempt to rebuild a life that...
...members communicating through earpieces during a performance of “Tosca.” The supporting cast also turns out excellent performances: especially noteworthy are Jeffrey Wright as an embittered Felix Leiter and Giancarlo Giannini as the disgraced Mathis. Although the story begins where “Casino Royale?? left off—a welcome first for a Bond movie—Forster washes his film of that movie’s operatic pretensions, and consequently “Quantum of Solace” feels less satisfyingly rich, less deeply felt. But gone forever is the Bond...
...wonder that this Danish film was nominated for a 2006 Oscar for best foreign language film. “After the Wedding” opens with images from Bombay, India. Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen, perhaps better known as evil banker Le Chiffre from “Casino Royale??) has been living there for over 20 years, working at an under-financed orphanage. When a wealthy businessman in Denmark offers the orphanage a potential donation, Jacob finds himself back in his native land in an attempt to save his life’s work and the children he loves...
Thank God for Judi Dench. As long as she is around, giving people a steely gaze and telling it like it is, whether as James Bond’s cantankerous boss in “Casino Royale?? or as the “battle axe” of a schoolteacher she plays in “Notes on a Scandal,” there will always be films worth seeing. Not that there aren’t other reasons to see “Notes on a Scandal.” Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy (whom viewers...
...writers of “Casino Royale?? include “Crash” writer/director Paul Haggis, who adds his effective (if overblown) dialogue to the film, but doesn’t try to convince you that the obscenely long and bloody chase sequence on a Miami runway has anything to do with plot or character development. This is disappointing—it holds “Casino Royale?? back from being one of the greatest Bond films ever—but not horribly so. In other films where the interstitial space between blood splatters...