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...then... well, not much. Moss vanishes from view, instead of slaking our desire to see him get away free and rich or go down with guns blazing. Chigurh has a unlikely, unsatisfying run-in with coincidence. Most of the screen time goes to Bell: his musings, visits to old friends and recollections of dreams. Jones is always worth watching, but why here? The Coens have lit a fuse they don't let go off. It's as if they junked the natural last reel of the film and substituted it with outtakes for the DVD edition. All this is faithful...
Dean Barry R. Bloom’s advice to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to restrict on-screen smoking in films sadly neglects the implications for artistic freedom in his otherwise admirable effort to discourage smoking...
...stripped naked, his head in a hood, a nude fellow prisoner kneeling before him simulating oral sex. "That is me," he claims to a TIME reporter, as one of the lurid photographs of detained Iraqis suffering sexual humiliation at the hands of U.S. soldiers scrolls down a computer screen. "I felt a mouth close around my penis. It was only when they took the bag off my head that I saw it was my friend." In the nine months he spent in detention, al-Abbadi says he was never charged and never interrogated. On that awful November night, four months...
...Michael Moore: In Bowling for Columbine, we used the videotape in the cafeteria, but I?m not going to show students being killed. In Fahrenheit 9/11, I felt that the media had shown the images of the planes flying into the towers more than enough, so the screen goes black for over a minute during the attack. So I?m always thinking about this sort of thing...
...Smoke Screen Your article about how Hollywood glamorizes smoking was illustrated with photos of Scarlett Johansson, Terrence Howard and Jack Nicholson lighting up in recent films [April 30]. You did not mention that all three were playing criminals. We don't see a lot of heroes smoking in films anymore. We do, however, still see lots of movie heroes solving their problems with fists and guns. That's a bigger problem than cigarettes. William Flanagan, New York City...