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Caution! More than a bellyful

March 12 - 18, 2008
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Food is the new battleground for makers of documentaries , but the end results don't always go to plan, reports Bee Wilson. A cattle stun gun is the weapon of choice for Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, and the sight of Bardem's pudding-bowled psychopath killing people at close range is one of the scariest things cinema has had to offer so far this year.





Why must actors confuse the viewers by mumbling dialogues?

March 12 - 18, 2008
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We've got state-of-the-art cinemas, DVD players with surround sound - so why is it impossible to make out what some actors are saying? David Jenkins finds out. So there they are, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Albert Finney, emoting like nobody's business after they've buried the woman who was, respectively, their mother and their wife, in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.