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...Darfur Now,” spotlights these six individuals in his latest surprisingly encouraging documentary. “Darfur Now” makes its timely arrival on the heels of the U.S. declaration of genocide this September. Against convention, the Sudanese government granted Braun permission to shoot inside the region, and the well crafted film, thoroughly researched and consistently engaging, provides an informative snapshot of the cross-continental response to the crisis. However, its emphasis on small victories, while inspiring, diminishes the urgency of the situation. The film spirals nicely inward. A world map with blinking exclamation points frames...
...some scrappy filmmaking, fits into that category. Coppola set up a production office at a friend's Bucharest pharmaceutical company, auditioning actors and cinematographers amid stores of cough syrup and vitamins. He hired a 28-year-old director of photography who had just gotten out of film school to shoot in less expensive high-definition digital video. With the help of old friend George Lucas, Coppola equipped a Dodge Sprinter cargo van with all the camera gear he would need, a technique he had employed on The Rain People, the 1969 movie they worked on together. For the first time...
...that Coppola has shaken the blahs, he'll get back behind the camera again and start shooting a script of his own - still not Megalopolis - in Argentina in February. Tetro, starring Matt Dillon and Javier Bardem, is "about fathers and brothers and creative competition, a little Greek." In September thieves broke into Coppola's home studio in Buenos Aires. "Five guys tied up the people, stabbed the photographer in the shoulder when he resisted and stole our electronics," including Coppola's computer with the Tetro script on it and his backup drives. "The script was finished. It made Hamlet look...
...ranks" of the Pakistani military. "It's too easy to punish the military for political decisions," Zinni says. "If the U.S. had problems with a country on human rights or other issues, I was always ordered as a combatant commander to punish the country's military. We shoot ourselves in the foot in a security sense when we do that...
...significant amount of time up in the air, and many passes went astray. The Crimson reached halftime level, though, as Wideroff grabbed an equalizer in the 44th minute. On the play, freshman Katherine Sheeleigh sent a pass to sophomore Christina Hagner. Hagner, who appeared to have room to shoot, chose instead to lay the ball off to a trailing Wideroff, who hammered the ball past the Lions’ keeper. Columbia’s winner came in the 70th minute, courtesy of Finnsdottir’s second goal of the match. In the last 20 minutes, Harvard had a number...