Word: taxi
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...know we're best-dressed when we get into a taxi and the driver asks, "You going to a costume party?" and we say, "No, we're just going to the pub."' ?Model Agyness Deyn, on her eclectic personal style...
Last month, Gibney's film Taxi to the Dark Side won the 2008 Academy Award for "Best Documentary" for its exploration of the Bush administration's policy on torture and interrogation at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Detention Centers. He dedicated the film to its central character, a 22-year-old taxi driver from Afghanistan who was detained and later beaten to death by American soldiers in December...
...film I think "Taxi" is a really a film about the corruption of the American character and how a few rather weak and panicked leaders - meaning the highest ranking members of the Bush administration - decided to pursue a policy of torture and illegal detention, which ended up not only damning us with bad intelligence, but also corrupting our rule of law. So in that sense, it's not purely an "Iraq" film. It's a film that journeys from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib in Iraq...
...went to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian drama about (really?) the Holocaust. Points to it, though, for lacing its noble sentiment with the bleak cynicism of a forger who remains devoted to his craft under the worst circumstances. In Feature Documentary, a strong category this year, the Guantanamo exposé, Taxi to the Dark Side, beat out the better-known (and also excellent) No End in Sight and Michael Moore's Sicko...
...racing devotees like Wong are harder to find these days. All four racing nights a week, the 54-year-old taxi driver parks himself in the back row of the Canidrome with a racing guide and a pack of cigarettes. "Dog racing is my passion," he says. "That's why I still come here." Out on the track, the dogs are chasing the rabbit, into an uncertain future...