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<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> Oct 13, 2009
</tr><!-- headline one : start --> <tr> Bigelow's big hit
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Director Kathryn Bigelow (far left) has done what the industry thought was impossible. She has made an Iraq war movie that critics like and Americans want to see. --PHOTO: ARCHER ENTERTAINMENT
</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow has done what the industry thought was impossible. She has made an Iraq war movie that critics like and Americans want to see.
The 57-year-old film-maker describes The Hurt Locker, which opens in Singapore on Thursday, simply as 'a combat movie, seen through a soldier's eyes'.
The snappily paced account of the daily lives of an elite team of United States Army bomb disposal experts, made for a paltry US$11 million (S$15.4 million) and partly funded with Bigelow's own money, has earned a healthy US$15 million worldwide on limited release and looks set to gain more ground in the box office as it opens in more markets in the coming months
Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times' LIFE!
</tr><!-- headline one : start --> <tr> Bigelow's big hit
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</tr><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --> <tr> <td class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colspan="2">By john lui, film correspondent
</td></tr><!-- show image if available --> <tr valign="bottom"> <td width="330">
</td> <td width="10">
Director Kathryn Bigelow (far left) has done what the industry thought was impossible. She has made an Iraq war movie that critics like and Americans want to see. --PHOTO: ARCHER ENTERTAINMENT
</td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--> DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow has done what the industry thought was impossible. She has made an Iraq war movie that critics like and Americans want to see.
The 57-year-old film-maker describes The Hurt Locker, which opens in Singapore on Thursday, simply as 'a combat movie, seen through a soldier's eyes'.
The snappily paced account of the daily lives of an elite team of United States Army bomb disposal experts, made for a paltry US$11 million (S$15.4 million) and partly funded with Bigelow's own money, has earned a healthy US$15 million worldwide on limited release and looks set to gain more ground in the box office as it opens in more markets in the coming months
Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times' LIFE!
