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...elicits some doubt and curiosity in the film’s cast of characters. Where defiant teen Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood, “Thirteen”) sees excitement and intrigue, her father (David Morse, “The Green Mile”) sees trailer trash, and her kid brother (Rory Culkin, “Mean Creek”) sees a role model. The film traces the melancholy trajectory of this dysfunctional family’s interactions once they come into contact with Harlan, with the psychological motivations behind each of the characters becoming clearer as the plot wears on.The...
...Fists In the Pocket” follows a murderous epileptic as he begins killing his stuffy, embarrassing family. Oh, and he’s in love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning to peter out. Along with Bernardo Bertolucci’s debut, released the year before, “Fists?...
...local council in the Pakistani border state of Punjab ordered the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in 2002 after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a rival tribe. After Mai spoke out, the government gave her $8,300 in compensation, which she used to found a school to educate young women in Pakistan. She has gained international acclaim largely due to columns penned by New York Times op-ed writer Nicholas D. Kristof ’81, whose readers have sent Mai over $130,000 through this past November.Kristof, a former Crimson editor, has written that...
Between her time as Barbarella and Hanoi Jane, among the Oscar wins and spousal losses, Fonda kept journals. Using those diaries along with media interviews and biographies of her famous family members (such as father Henry, brother Peter, and niece Bridget), she wrote her memoirs. Of course, the 22,000 pages of FBI files (kept on her because of her involvement in Vietnam) didn’t hurt either...
...daughter of one of America’s most cherished directors and actors, and the sister of “Easy Rider,” Fonda differs from her family. “Acting and filmmaking was never the center of my life the way it was for my brother and my father,” she says; instead, she was “always prepared to let that part of my life drop in order to pursue a relationship or a political cause or something like that...