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Happy-Go-Lucky Written and directed by Mike Leigh; rated R; out now Sally Hawkins won the Berlin Film Festival's Best Actress award as a cockeyed-optimist schoolteacher in this larkish entry from the usually dour Brit auteur Leigh (Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake). Even if you don't find Hawkins as adorable as the movie does, you're likely to fall in love with Karina Fernandez, who plays an imperiously funny flamenco teacher...
...format to people who haven’t made a lot of films,” Hale says. Forty-eight of the entries were from local artists, including Kristina R. Yee ’10, whose piece, “No Water, No Moon,” won the award for best local entry. Originally created as a four-and-a-half minute animation, Yee’s adaptation of a Zen short story lent itself to the short form. “The thing about Zen short stories is that they are so concise in and of themselves that...
...Prize was to recognize exceptional individuals—regardless of nationality—apparently, Engdahl has been keeping score. And although he toned down his statement in light of sharp criticism from Americans and insisted that the prize “is not a contest between nations but an award to individual authors,” his declaration of Europe’s literary hegemony reveals a subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts and letters. French president Nicolas Sarkozy did not mind; crowing yesterday over...
...finest movie ever made. But these moments are only funny in a fleeting, peripheral way, and they lack the bite that a comedy with such satirical aspirations requires. Only one scene in the film felt truly comedic. Sidney sees the trailer for Sophie’s award-winning new movie, “Teresa: The Making of a Saint,” in which she plays a young Mother Teresa whose heart is torn between her love for a priest and her desire to help the poor. The trailer immediately provokes laughs because it raises the question that all moviegoers...
...Room for a master class with Previn as part of the Learning From Performers series sponsored by the Office for the Arts. At the conclusion of the master class, Previn, making his first visit to Harvard in 26 years, was presented with the second annual Musician of the Year Award by the Harvard Music Society of Kirkland. The event was open to the public, and as a result, older musicians and fans were in attendance alongside Harvard students. “[Previn is] obviously a wonderful musician, and this [was] a great opportunity to see him in person...