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...greatest failing of Halicki’s supposed masterpiece is the script. A significant amount of dialogue is given as voice-overs during car-chases or while the main characters are repairing stolen vehicles in the auto shop. Thus, the viewer is so focused on the action on-screen that he/she completely ignores the voice-over comments. And yet, even without abundant voice-over, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” would be utterly confusing. The audience is plunged into a network of thirty-something men who talk too quickly and run around town looking...
...sedition, and the critical establishment dismissed the film as—according to one review—a “paranoid fantasy.” Subsequently, “Punishment” did not receive broad distribution—only a handful of American specialty theaters dared screen the film.As part of their attempt to show this future is not so far from our present, “Punishment” vividly recreates the anarchic violence of the most horrific Vietnam War-era protests. In the film, militant elements among the dissidents resolve to battle the armed police...
London easyHotel's bijou orange rooms with shower "pods" and flat-screen TVs start at $45. Created by the folks who launched easyJet, this new chain has already set up in Switzerland and has plans to dot the rest of Europe...
...Bush's approval ratings, which lately have been topping 40% again. "It's time for the Bush comeback story!" one coached TIME for this article. "The perfect storm has receded. We have better news in Iraq, oil prices are down, and Katrina has kind of fallen off the radar screen in terms of public concern." But they know that Bush is running short of time to salvage his remaining three years. The focus will soon shift to the 2006 midterm elections and then to the race to replace him in 2008. And a midterm election that doesn...
...industry will be increasingly driven by Chinese tastes and Chinese stories. But that's for tomorrow's film execs to contemplate. Today, Chan's images rattle in the mind: a distraught Lin wading through his midnight-green hotel pool; Nie and Sun in a darkened theater, silhouetted against a screen that has gone as blank as their relationship; Sun and Lin on a frozen lake, wrapped in a decade of love and hate. And crimson stage blood staining stage snow, as bright as the future of film in China...