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...West Indian immigrants with whom they indulged a mutual love of reggae and ska. Hailing from a staunchly working-class background, Meadows, 35, dropped out of school as a teenager and later made his first films while subsisting on welfare benefits in his native Nottingham. He hit critical acclaim with his 1999 second feature, A Room for Romeo Brass, set in a Yorkshire mining town on the skids...
...brilliant.” “He did an excellent job of contextualizing the problem within a broader context,” Bhabha said. Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, is primarily considered a playwright, though his novels and poetry collections have also garnered critical acclaim. Soyinka, originally from western Nigeria, is also known for his political activism, including outspoken criticism of dictatorships in Nigeria and worldwide. Fletcher University Professor Henry L. Gates, Jr., director of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, called Soyinka “Africa’s most eloquent...
...energy of the film. The movie also intersperses shaky, close-up hand-camera shots with picturesque and still images, which lends “Live Free or Die” the look of a beautiful, low-budget affair, which is doubtlessly what earned the film’s critical acclaim. Sadly, the poor direction and too-minimal editing create an unfocused melodrama out of what could have been either a riotous comedy or a love letter to small-town New Hampshire. Unlike much of the plot of “Live Free or Die,” Kavet and Robin...
...evil,” Robbins says. “I think politics has become a barrier to the human dimension.”Despite this barrier, he says “it matters to have respect to these people…as part of a democracy.” ACCLAIMED STORIESAmidst critical acclaim, the final product has been picked up for theatrical release, unexpected at the inception of the project.“Operation Homecoming” will be playing at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre on April 6 and will be airing on PBS on April...
...Then al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center. New York City's worst catastrophe was Giuliani's finest hour, and the worldwide acclaim he received gave his start-up company instant momentum. Firms lined up to buy the advice, credibility and connections of a man who had been knighted (honorary) by the Queen of England, hailed as "Rudy the Rock" by the President of France and chosen as TIME's Person of the Year...