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Most of the businesses that are run down in the film are now active with furniture shops, Mexican food joints and 99 cent stores.
I came away from Dead Man's Shoes with a sense of pride; a sense of acknowledgment; a feeling that British film at its lowest budget level and at its grittiest and simplest is very much alive and active.
A film using an active volcano as a backdrop for a drama is an original idea but it is about all that is good in this film.
Scorsese is considered the greatest US filmmaker still active (by all those who don't think so of Spielberg).
If what you want is to be an active spectator and interactive with the movie, you'll not be disappointed.
Seven Waves Away was made with impressive conviction and passion by writer-director Richard Sale, who was very active in the 1950s but didn't get another opportunity to direct a feature after this one, despite living 36 more years (what's up with that?).
There's one guy in the otherwise all-girl band, and they make him sleep behind a sheet--out of modesty?--and yet the girls themselves are sexually active and think nothing of having sex in that van until the damn thing just about topples over.
it defies simple catergorisation, it is not just a story about rampantly sexually active teenagers like so many of its kind.
Also the music sounds like a bunch of hyper active kindergardeners in a jazz night club.
Whether you consider Charles Band a low-budget genius or a scourge to film-makers everywhere, he certainly has an active imagination.
The new doctor is Witty as he is Hyper active!
In 1984 I was more active in going to Duffy Square in Manhattan and seeing what plays I could get tickets to on Broadway.
There are so many plot holes that it makes it hard to concentrate on the bad active, grade school haunted house makeup & special effects or the terrible sound effects.
Austria is party to practically all major international human rights treaties and has traditionally played an active part in their drafting.
Governments need to provide adequate incentives to encourage first-movers, and should play an active role in providing the required improvements or coordinating private firms’ investments in those areas.
The Trial of the CenturyPRINCETON – Next month, a judge in Oregon will begin hearing a case brought against the United States government on behalf of 21 young people, supported by the non-profit organization Our Children’s Trust, who allege that the authorities’ active contributions to the climate crisis violate their constitutional rights.
The plaintiffs claim that their government’s active contribution to climate change has violated their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.
It took PayPal two NASDAQ listings and almost two decades operating in the world’s largest economy to reach 188 million active customers and $282 billion in annual payments.
Although M-Pesa has been operating for less than a decade in a much lower-income market, it had nearly 17 million active users conducting more than $50 billion in cashless transactions last year.
But such accounts still number less than a quarter of active M-Pesa users, and M-Shwari still supports only small 30-day loans.
Of the twenty or so active developing and newly developed countries in the WTO, almost half come from the region.
The Doha Round will not make sustained progress without the active participation of East Asia, on individual issues and across the board.
Korea is active and constructive in the WTO, except on agriculture.
Malaysia and Thailand are also fairly active in the WTO, with a mix of free-market and protectionist positions.
But the Chinese policy elite are also very taken with the idea that a first-rank country needs a prominent banking system that is active internationally.
But until China acts with greater sincerity and transparency in eliminating the international community’s concerns, it runs the risk that its neighbors will not only suspect its efforts in the international arena, but take active countermeasures to defend their security.
Such a framework can emerge in Asia only with Japan’s active involvement, not on the basis of her isolation.
Far from endorsing Japanese lack of sensitivity, active Western political engagement – for its own credibility in Asia – must convey that Japan’s future depends on gaining the trust of the region.
A more active and efficient IPO market will allow companies to meet their financing needs without bank intermediation – a step that is vital to helping firms eliminate their debt overhangs.
And the US certainly has strong incentive to pursue a strategy of active re-engagement with Latin America: the Inter-American Development Bank calculates that if the US were to reclaim the share of Latin American imports that it had in 2000, it could be exporting around $788 billion each year to the region.
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