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...prize there, as well as the critics' award at the Toronto Film Festival a week later - is Mullan's second feature-length work (after 1997's Orphans). The fact-based tale of four girls sent to one of Ireland's Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says. "I got to understand oppression, especially the kind that...
...disappeared, and she was alone with God. Within hours of first seeing Roger after she was rescued, Genelle told him that her survival was her calling to God, and that if they were to be together, they were going to change their lives. They couldn't live in sin. They would be going to the Brooklyn Tabernacle every week...
Wise men say only fools rush in but I can't help falling in love with you. Shall I stay would it be a sin If I can't help falling in love with you? -Elvis Presley, "Can't Help Falling in Love...
...most surprising and satisfying difference between the book and movie comes from discovering how the same story yields two different, but equally fascinating themes. Collins' heavily Catholic graphic novel deals more with the nature of sin and redemption. O'Sullivan Sr. lights a church candle for each of the men he kills, and goes to confession diligently. Tom Hanks' movie version has clearly resigned himself to damnation. Taking a more Protestant approach to salvation, he strives to keep Michael Jr. from following his father's violent path. David Self's screenplay alters the story in clever ways to bring...
...Iranian-born American dancer, to a 10-year suspended jail term, for showing videotapes of his dance courses to Iranian youths; in Tehran. Khordadian, who had been living in the U.S. since 1981, had traveled to Iran to see his ailing father. Islamic hard-liners condemn dance as a sin and a crime, and the authorities have barred Khordadian from leaving the country. U.S. officials made no public comment. SENTENCED. IVAN NIKOLIC, 30, a former Yugoslav soldier, to eight years in prison for war crimes during the Kosovo war, in the first trial of its kind held in Serbia since...