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Monday, September 14, 2009 Kevin L. Ferguson: Yuppie devil -- Villainy in Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel Yuppie devil: villainy in Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel by Kevin L. Ferguson Jump Cut "When Mephistopheles shows up wearing a gold Rolex he's truly a creature for our age." - Janet Maslin Film critic Janet Maslin must call forth the devil himself ...

Alluring stage-trained actress of Asian heritage, active in stage, TV and film. Tom studied acting and music in her native Illinois, and her first professional credit was as an addition to the national tour of "A Chorus.... Alluring stage-trained actress of Asian heritage, active in stage, TV and film.

Who knew that director Kathryn Bigelow was anything other than a Hollywood hack? Sure, sure, she's had her supporters, but practically all of her past projects have favored cold style over warm substance.

Kathryn Bigelow, a director who made her mark on adrenaline-junkie fare such as "Point Break," finds her ultimate subject in the men stuck in "The Hurt Locker," bomb disposal experts working the deadly streets of Iraq.

Director Nia Vardalos' new film I Hate Valentine's Day was made on a tiny budget - so tiny, Vardalos jokes, that "we couldn't afford a real director." IFC Films "Nine percent of the 250 top-grossing domestic films were directed by women in 2008.

Is there a more achingly resonant movie title than "The Hurt Locker"? Fortunately, the movie lives up to it.

Yes, he smokes. I accept. I also accept the hand-held camerawork. We all have it-makes-sense-here exceptions.

Specialist Owen Eldridge takes aim in The Hurt Locker. Courtesy Summit Entertainment Americans have made their will known at the polls and the box office, and the message is clear: Our military presence in the Middle East is only slightly less popular than the movies inspired by it.

POINT BREAK : Most will remember her biggest commercial hit for its surfing, its skydiving, and its shoot-outs. Kathryn Bigelow has been putting art into action films a ' or is it action into art films? a ' since she made her first student short, "The Set-Up" . Although this one doesn't screen in "Kathryn Bigelow a ' Filmmaking at the Dark Edge of ...

PHILADELPHIA - Slim as lightning, Kathryn Bigelow makes movies charged with adrenaline and electricity, action thrillers like 'Blue Steel' and 'Point Break.' The 6-footer with the radiant presence of a Redgrave and the steel nerves of a high-wire artist is drawn to stories about daredevils addicted to the rush.

Renner has no use for Mackie's caution. Details: Opens at Egyptian and other theaters, Fri., July 10.

Director Kathryn Bigelow attended the San Francisco Art Institute in the late '60s and like a lot of her young colleagues had plans to become an avant-garde painter.

The Loveless Bigelow's feature debut was a low-budget but fabulously moody biker flick - "The Wild One'' as existential fetish art, starring a hot young Willem Dafoe.

Through her long and fascinatingly unpredictable career, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has always had prescience on her side.

A woman of action: Director Kathryn Bigelow doesn't do 'chick flicks,' but powerful 'masculine' movies, such as her dark new film set during the Iraq war.

A mong director Kathryn Bigelow's many gifts is the ability to make men feel penis envy.

A Just before dawn one July morning, Kathryn Bigelow was setting up a shot for The Hurt Locker in the Jordanian desert.

Peaches knows what to do with your pain. THURSDAY 5/28 SIFF: Cut the Red Wire! There's nothing more cinematic than a ticking bomb and the life-or-death deadline to defuse it.