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The Turin newspaper said that while Rushdie, the object of a fatwa issued 10 years ago by the Ayatollah Khomeini, still can't be free of the nightmare that some Muslim fanatic might try to kill him, "it is certain that Iran, whatever it does, cannot get free of Rushdie."
Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).
This year, there are three animated movies alone that deserve to be on a top-10 list-- South Park , The Iron Giant , and Toy Story 2 . (And one other, Princess Mononoke , that has moments of epic grandeur and images so primal they could be lifted from a nightmare, or cause one.)
Considering the difficulty of such relatively simple procedures as these, the world of Gattaca seems a distant nightmare.
Bill Clinton calls this a "nightmare scenario."