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...between artistic value and social resonance, though often placing greater emphasis on one aspect than the other. For the HFA, while the main objective is to exhibit films that are visually challenging, the content’s sophistication is also taken into consideration.“We tend to avoid showing films whose main objective is to deliver information, to deliver an ideological message,” says programmer David Pendleton of the HFA, “because we try to show films that have a certain aesthetic complexity.” This stylistic complexity can contribute to a film?...
...Together,” which opened on Broadway 10 years ago, was a disappointment to him, sacrificing meaning in favor of cuteness and kitsch. “I know kitsch is sometimes unavoidable in musical theater,” he jests, “but I try to avoid it as much as possible.” For Kramer, the greatest challenge of this production was interpreting the narrative created by this sequence of songs, considering the context of each in its original show as well as its place in this one. Another difficulty faced by the production staff...
...restaurants, apartment buildings, parties and such. In the film's last scene, we find out that she's studying the impact of feminism, although the interactions we witness seem mostly directed toward proving the thesis Men Are Awful, or, put in Wallace terms, "A Supposedly Fun Gender I Should Avoid Forever...
...parade, the government had promised to provide security in the form of several thousand police officers to avoid a repeat of the 2001 gay-pride parade, which ended in turmoil when right-wing groups unleashed vicious attacks on participants. Only days before this year's event, politicians and top police officials said the parade would go on despite threats of violence. But in the end, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the risk of attacks was too high. "We're not talking about a handful of hooligans - there were several thousand people ready to attack the participants and the police...
While many analysts focused on Tuesday's meeting as an Obama admission of defea on settlements, some were more optimistic. Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy believes that the Administration's pivot on the issue smartly boxed Netanyahu into a negotiating process the Israeli leader would have preferred to avoid, by turning his own argument against him: if, as Netanyahu insists, settlements should be an issue for negotiation rather than a precondition because their fate will depend on future borders, then why not move straight to final-status negotiations over those borders...