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Dhahir sits in his freshly repainted office, separated from the masses and the honking traffic below by layers of concertina wire and sand-filled barriers. The 42-year-old police colonel, his black hair specked with silver and combed neatly across his forehead, oversees a rough part of Baghdad known as "thieves market." A few blocks away, well-armed thugs do a brisk trade in guns, drugs and women, and vendetta killings are becoming commonplace. The police do their best to contain the rising power of criminal gangs--and are making some progress--but all too often the cops find...
...Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through Riley's eyes, the Sahara is a nightmare looking-glass world, where camels are sacred and men wash their faces with sand. It couldn't have been more alien if he had been captured by Klingons, but Riley manages to form a kind of friendship with one of his captors, a charismatic merchant named Sidi Hamet who helps him survive the ordeal...
...boardwalk that undulates through scrub-covered dunes. Roughly 15 minutes later you are overlooking the Atlantic. The beach below is not zoned, but nudists tend to go left, the clothed right. In summer there are a few chiringuitos - makeshift beach cafés - but it's easy to find sand and silence all for yourself. Only one building has been allowed on these cliffs: the hotel Cristóbal Colón Parador, built in the 1960s. This near-virgin strip of protected beach stretches about 15 km, with a few other entrances from the road. One, past the Parador...
...other hand, Best Actor seems like it will end in a photo finish, with Lost in Translation’s Bill Murray a nose ahead of Sean Penn. I personally felt Ben Kingsley had the performance of the year, and his visceral anguish in House of Sand and Fog was a masterfully controlled performance, especially when contrasted with Penn’s rather blunt stabs at the agony of child loss (slam table here, deliver choked up yelp there...
...Bondie. But even Miramax seems to admit that she’s lost her momentum, opening room for a victory by a member of your so-called “weak field.” That reference surely comes from someone who has not yet seen House of Sand and Fog, because Shohreh Aghdashloo’s achievement as an Irani expatriate with a fragile command of the English language is about as compelling as acting can get. It’s usually difficult to predict this category, but not when it includes a performance this complete...