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His volcanic rages don't have the put-on quality of post- Raging Bull Robert De Niro or the preening self-consciousness of Al Pacino; nor is he a simple-minded bully boy, like Harvey Keitel.
A profile of the Ochs and Sulzberger families suggests that their stewardship of the New York Times was unduly influenced by self-consciousness about their Judaism.
But while Stoppard has slummed a bit for the big screen, he has done some of his most serious and demanding work for the small one: Professional Foul , a 1977 BBC commission, addressed the moral dilemmas faced by a group of English academics at a philosophical conference in Prague; and Squaring the Circle: Poland 1980-81 , broadcast in 1984, brought the playful self-consciousness of Travesties to the deadly serious events surrounding the Lenin Shipyard strike and the subsequent government crackdown.
She politely tells him of her self-consciousness and discomfort at seeing the picture, and he explains to her that, while the photographer and his model are in some ways collaborators, the power, the control, ultimately belongs to the photographer alone.
Critics call this version more polished than the low budget original and better than the other six sequels but say nonetheless that it is predictable, devoid of scare power, and overly fond of the current horror movie trend of "smirky pomo self-consciousness" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). (Visit the official site.)