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  • Syndromes is pure - to the extent that I don't believe that there's a wasted moment, extraneous visual, or unharmonious cut, and that everything you see comes from the genuine expression of a painter and philosopher who just happens to use film as his medium.

    GreenCine Daily: Syndromes and a Century. 2007

  • For reasons that are unclear, the syndrome affects women twice as often as it does men, says Joshua Prager of the Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes at UCLA.

    USATODAY.com - Abdul puts syndrome in spotlight 2005

  • The "Syndromes" entry's also been updated through 4/21.

    GreenCine Daily: Syndromes and a petition. 2007

  • That means that films like "Syndromes" — which features scenes of monks playing guitar and doctors getting drunk — often fall victim to the whims of local police, whose tastes run to slapstick comedies and action flicks.

    When Movies Follow The Storm 2007

  • The beautifully photographed production, which was written and directed by Apichatpong Joe Weerasethakul—his previous films include "Syndromes and a Century" and "Tropical Malady"—is often funny, and sometimes comforting in its details: the simple but effective medical treatment dispensed by an unlicensed male nurse, the tender way Boonmee's sister-in-law hugs his weakened body.

    Lizard Tale 'Rango': Clever, Coldblooded Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Apparently both Bush Worship Syndrome and Obama Derangement Syndromes are alive and well – co-existing in the same individuals, it seems.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable 2009

  • His "Syndromes and a Century" was on the 2006 Top 10 list of the venerable U.K. film magazine Sight

    Asia in Cannes Lina Yoon 2010

  • Just last month my youngest daughter called from Minnesota to say she was reading a review in a Duluth newspaper of The Hypochondriac's Handbook: Syndromes, Diseases, and Ailments that Probably Should Have Killed You By Now.

    Susan Orlins: Worrywart as Repository for 10 Unnerving Scenarios 2010

  • Koro and amok and the like can be found far back in the American diagnostic manual DSM-IV, pages 845—849 under the heading “Culture-Bound Syndromes.”

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • His "Syndromes and a Century" has never even had a commercial release at home, because the director has refused to allow the cutting of four scenes -- involving what was deemed unseemly behavior on the part of doctors and monks -- that government censors demand be removed.

    Asia in Cannes Lina Yoon 2010

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