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Has Kathryn Bigelow Made the 'Apocalypse Now' of Iraq?

By Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix | July 9, 2009
Although everyone makes a point of director Kathryn Bigelow's gender and height and good looks, what's germane is that even if she were short and had bushy eyebrows like Martin Scorsese, she still would be directing action pictures like no one since Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. With her latest, The Hurt Locker, maybe she'll start getting the recognition she deserves.
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