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...economics concentrator in Dunster House who attended the event and asked the panel a question about swing voters. The panel also discussed the relevance of yesterday’s vice-presidential debate, which was broadcast after the event on the IOP’s big-screen TV. On the issue of who will win the upcoming election, the speakers agreed that it is too close to call. “I think the election is tied. I think it’s been tied since 2000, and I think it’s still tied,” said Kennedy...
...Star Is Born From Y Tu Mam Tambin to Bad Education, Mexican actor Gael Garca Bernal burns up the screen...
...films with subtitles, or didn't read the gossip columns that detailed his romance (now ended) with Star Wars' Natalie Portman, you probably haven't noticed Garca Bernal. But if you saw him on screen or in person, you'd pay attention. He has the face of a streetwise seraph--luscious lips that break into a mile-wide, million-dollar smile; green eyes sending out searchlights to communicate with the stranger across from him; a gentle intensity that turns a conversation into a blend of confession and first date. All this has caught the eye of some...
...Kerry Conran's script has a plot lifted and sifted from lots of '30s films--The Wizard of Oz, Lost Horizon and a dozen sassy newspaper comedies. But the technique is the star here: Conran's devising of a Deco-meets-delirium universe that he projected onto a blue screen, in front of which the game, clueless stars--Jude Law as the intrepid flyboy, Gwyneth Paltrow as a plucky news gal--recited their lines...
...Conran's achievement; we're simply noting that he hasn't attached his technical virtuosity to a ripping yarn or infused it with behavioral brio. The first of its kind often doesn't work; Sky Captain may be the Moses that leads other directors to a blue-sky, blue-screen promised land...