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...science historian’s work, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America,” has already received the Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious award in historical writing...
...Film noir is a genre that never goes out of favor.) The Criterion Collection lavished its legendary care on editions of Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Night and the City and Rififi. And when that film was briefly released in theaters in 2000, it won a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle. Yet a bunch of Dassin's major Euro-pix, including He Who Must Die, The Law and Phaedra, and his late-60s urban drama Up Tight!, remain unavailable on DVD. Some of his movies are so hard to find, they have...
...Women’s Center’s held its eleventh annual Women’s Leadership Awards dinner at the Charles Hotel last night, recognizing Katherine A. Beck ’08, Elizabeth M. Grosso ’08, and Meghan Pasricha ’08. Stephanie D. Wilson ’88, a NASA astronaut, was given the Women’s Professional Achievement Award. “We recognize outstanding seniors at Harvard who have made contributions to the community and whose example can serve as an inspiration for other women at Harvard to excel...
Scorsese is just one of many top directors who have found release in reality. In World War II, virtually all of Hollywood was mobilized to churn out propaganda films, and directors such as John Ford, Frank Capra, John Huston, William Wyler and George Stevens (all, eventually, Academy Award winners) enlisted in the armed forces and made tough, smart, often inspiring films of fighting men. More recent directors, like Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee and Michael Apted, have alternated studio movies and important nonfiction projects. For a decade after Titanic, James Cameron gave up Hollywood to make deep-sea documentaries...
...killing fields" is how Cambodian-born photojournalist Dith Pran described the grim heaps of human remains strewn across his homeland by the Khmer Rouge--a name later given to the 1984 Academy Award--winning film that depicted his 4 1/2 year struggle to survive as a prisoner of the brutal communist regime. A photographer and an interpreter for New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg, whose work was the basis for the film, Dith was captured after staying in Phnom Penh to help document the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. When he escaped in 1979, he moved to New York City...