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2003 Stories by John Powers

• Watch Them All Fall Down

  published December 11, 2003

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• Killer of Sheep: The Best Film about Los Angeles

  published October 23, 2003

  You may claim that the best one is actually Sunset Boulevard just for the title and the swimming pool alone.  You may argue that it’... More >>

• Once Upon a Time in the East

  published October 16, 2003

  I first met Quentin Tarantino at the 1992 Toronto Film Festival after a screening of Reservoir Dogs. He was sitting on a sofa... More >>

• Rise of the Anti-Machine

  published October 16, 2003

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• Devil’s Island

  published October 2, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennet I know that you got a job Miz Cheney But your husband’s heart problem... More >>

• Fanfare for the Uncommon Man

  published September 18, 2003

  When Arnold went on Leno to announce that he was running for governor — back when he looked like a cunning demagogue rather than anothe... More >>

• Tomb Raiders

  published August 7, 2003

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• Yellowcake Rising

  published July 24, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennett Last... More >>

• Children of Paradise

  published July 17, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennet When Harper’s sent Kurt Vonnegut to cover the 1972 Republican Convention, our bounciest misanthrope cam... More >>

• You Gotta Fight for Your Rights

  published July 10, 2003

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• Undead Do Dance

  published July 3, 2003

  The horror movie 28 Days Later puts a propulsive new spin on the term “going apeshit.” It begins with animal-rights guerrillas tryi... More >>

• Iron Maidens

  published June 19, 2003

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• Weapons of Mass Distraction

  published June 12, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennett Last Friday night on the Eric Rudolph Channel, er, CNN, anchor Aaron Brown finally devoted a few minutes to... More >>

• The 10 Most Influential Books of the Past Year

  published June 5, 2003

  Lists are the junk food of journalism — that’s what they run in Entertainment Weekly when the editors can’t think of anything el... More >>

• Stuck in the middle with Neo

  published May 22, 2003

  I caught an opening-weekend show of X2, and the audience shivered with genuine excitement just once — during the trailer for Th... More >>

• George of the Jungle

  published May 15, 2003

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• Y Tu Grandmamá También

  published May 1, 2003

  While most rookie directors are happy to get good reviews, a rare few want nothing less than to wow the immortals. Thirty-one-year-old Carlos... More >>

• Superspreaders

  published April 24, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennett In a memorable passage in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera observed that over the... More >>

• The Dorky, the Docile and the Dead

  published April 17, 2003

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• Soldiers of Fortune 500

  published April 10, 2003

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• The Logo-Spangled Banner

  published April 3, 2003

  Illustration by Dana Collins From new transmitters come old stupidities. —Bertolt Brecht On Saturday morning i... More >>

• The Big What If?

  published March 20, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennett There are no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns — that is to say, ther... More >>

• To the Rectum, and Back Again

  published March 13, 2003

  Gaspar Noé’s steely-eyed 1998 feature I Stand Alone was like a French Taxi Driver — only 22 years... More >>

• Shock and Awe

  published March 6, 2003

  Illustration by Peter Bennett MODERN WARFARE ISN'T ONLY ABOUT KILLING — it's about inspiring mass terror. That's why on the first day of Gul... More >>

• Songs of Innocence and Experience

  published February 20, 2003

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