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...sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy of male bonding gone berserk...
...despite wins over Texas and Cal Poly-SLO in an October road swing, and a thrilling 2-1 loss to No. 4 UConn, Harvard came up short in its quest to shine outside the Ancient Eight...
Nowhere has Silverman displayed contrarian instincts more clearly than in the slo-mo rental-car business, from which U.S. automakers have been peeling away as fast as they can (see box). Yet Silverman gladly paid $800 million last year for No. 2 Avis, a global brand that he views as a natural fit with his hotel and resort time-sharing businesses. After overhauling Avis, Silverman plans to sell a stake in the company to the public...
...film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone. But that's not what matters. Taking a page from the Martin Scorsese handbook, Curtis Hall smartly heightens moments with epic visual declarations (slo-mo, negative images, gigantic closeups). The speeches are arias, the shots operatic, complex...
...servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy."The film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone," says TIME's Richard Corliss. " But that's not what matters. Taking a page from the Martin Scorsese handbook, Curtis Hall smartly heightens moments with epic visual declarations (slo-mo, negative images, gigantic closeups). The speeches are arias, the shots operatic, complex. Shakur also serves as his own elegist. 'All the things we talked about' he says of Cookie when he thinks she might be dead, 'things she wanted to do -- then she ups and dies...