Seven years ago the photographer James Balog was something of a climatechange skeptic. In his view, nature was far too vast and supreme a force for mere mortals—in their puny insignificance—to have any lasting effect on.…
Joe Wright’s polished adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (05) readied him for the convergence of the intimate and the spectacular in Atonement (07), his mobile camerawork prompting comparisons, visually if not thematically, to Max Ophuls. What’s more,…
Like a fitted coat worn by someone it wasn’t tailored for, parts of Cloud Atlas bulge out, overstretched, begging for more material, while other sections hang laughably loose. Adapted from the multiple-award-winning 2004 novel by David…
On April 21, 1989, one day after the attack on the woman known ever since as the Central Park Jogger, mayor Ed Koch proclaimed: “I think that everybody here—maybe across the nation—will look at this case…
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