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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Tale of Two “Renditions”


At Toronto, there’s the polished New Line production of Gavin Hood’s “Rendition”, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a CIA agent who doubts the guilt of man they’ve squirreled away to another country to torture. Across the pond comes the UK version, James Threapleton’s decidedly indie, and recently re-named, “Extraordinary Rendition”, which will screen at Edinburgh this month. This story follows a man trying to piece his life back together after being squirreled away. While New Line’s official “Rendition” site is what you'd expect from a Hollywood marketing department, the “Extraordinary Rendition” site is more of a blog, including a mini making-of video and entries about the stack of lawsuits building around the illegal program.  (Mike Jones)

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