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...time of its release, “Games of Love and Chance” was a triumphant critical success, winning four prizes—including Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing, and Most Promising Actress—at the César Awards in France. His subsequent movie, “The Secret of the Grain,” released in 2007, achieved even stronger critical acclaim. Along with the same four César prizes rewarded to “Games of Love and Chances,” it also received three others at the Venice Film Festival, including...
...smidge of financial calamity. It's a flop of Universal proportions. With a grudging B-rating from CinemaScore's polling of moviegoers who'd seen the film, Green Zone could join Syriana, The Kingdom, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Rendition and the Oscar-triumphant The Hurt Locker in the box-office body count of Mideast war movies. Indeed, the film's opening-weekend tally was almost exactly the same (factoring in inflation) as Team America: World Police...
Pope Benedict XVI's triumphant return to his Bavarian hometown of Marktl am Inn four years ago - his first since becoming Pontiff - was made all the more poignant by the presence of his older brother, Georg Ratzinger. Five decades after they'd entered seminary together, the new Pontiff and the retired church-choir director stepped with the same soft gait and wavy white hair into the town's tiny riverside chapel. Praying silently side by side, they might just as well have been an aging pair of humble village priests...
...first and second movements. The highlight of the evening’s performance was undoubtedly the third movement, with a hauntingly poignant melody that does not easily leave memory. Driven by the orchestra’s momentum, Cortese led the fourth movement to the evening’s positively triumphant conclusion...
...narrator of the album encounters—“This is a war we can’t win / After 10,000 years it’s still us against them.” The song slowly crescendos into a restrained chorus followed by a battered-sounding yet triumphant brass band and an exultant guitar solo, as Sickles continues to scream “It’s still us against them.” Even when the aggression of the music is reduced, the forcefulness of the lyrical narrative remains...