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...Tonys, meanwhile, can't pay tribute to the real Best Actress currently on Broadway - Laura Linney, in Sight Unseen, a Manhattan Theatre Club revival that arrived just a couple of weeks too late for Tony consideration. Who's doing their scheduling? Donald Margulies' 1992 play concerns a world-famous painter who pays a visit to an ex-girlfriend (Linney) now living in the English boondocks with her archeologist husband. Margulies' work (Dinner With Friends, Collected Stories) has always struck me as slick but rather pat. This play, however, has all sorts of intriguing tendrils, as relationships and backstory are unraveled...
Moore's work here is to show the corruptive influence of the war in Iraq: coarsening some Americans abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. Toward the end, Moore returns home to Flint to grieve with the parents of a dead soldier, then goes to Washington in a quixotic attempt to badger members of Congress into volunteering their sons and daughters for military service...
...toward then-Governor Bush, who recognizes him and says, "Behave yourself, will ya? Go and find real work." Moore's goal here is to show the corruptive influence of the war on Iraq: coarsening the American spirit at home and abroad, killing others. The film contains previously unseen footage of U.S. soldiers' abuse of Iraqi detainees last Christmas Eve. One of the men in custody apparently has an erection under his blanket; a soldier swats it and says, "Ali Baba has a hard-on," while another G.I. shouts, in a schoolboy's merry derision, "You touched his dick!" Toward...
...which singled him out for persecution at the hands of one or another strongman’s private militia. This oppression of Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support...
...earning nearly $3 billion in movie theaters and oodles more on home formats. He blended live action and computer animation in a way that could not have been realized, or even imagined, 10 years ago. Just as important, the trilogy infused the fantasy genre with a grace and gravity unseen on such a huge scale. LOTR was an artistic and financial coup so impressive that even the Motion Picture Academy was bowled over, giving the film a record-tying 11 Oscars...