Word: sagaing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams...
...lifelong fan of the Star Wars saga, I have nothing but the utmost respect for writer-producer-director George Lucas [ARTS, April 29]. I'm looking forward to Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, but Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace was a bad movie because it was a weak story poorly told. It focused on arcane trade disputes and internecine politics instead of characters. Too many key scenes were designed to show off all the new tricks and special effects. As for Lucas' assertion that he can't make his films for fans, I agree that...
...believe it's fair to criticize his approach to making the Star Wars films. He has the ability to make exciting movies, and if it takes years of solitude between making them, that's fine with me. Titanic can't compare in quality and ingenuity with the Star Wars saga. REBECCA SAKSEFSKI Louisville...
...Will people stand for it?" Not only will we stand for it, it's what we've been waiting for all along. We want the darkness. It's what makes the story truly interesting, and it's the reason The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie in the saga thus far. A happy ending may please the crowd, but a dark ending will make people think. There are plenty of saccharin-sweet movies out there. I want something I have to wrap my mind around. MELISSA MORTH Houston...
...been charged). For a leader who promised to end Korea's culture of corruption, watching offspring turn the Blue House into an atm is debilitating. President Kim has offered five public apologies for his sons' antics and recently resigned from the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, which is praying the saga won't cloud December presidential elections. Koreans, though, are getting used to this. A son of former President Kim Young Sam was sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. Kim the elder can only look at his wayward scions and wonder where it all went wrong, while Koreans look...