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...with its story of a successful stage actress whose life is destroyed by a lecherous Culture Minister and the Stasi. The director of The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 33, says he did not set out to make a political point but wanted to personalize the period. "Cinema is a good barometer to show what is going on in a country," Von Donnersmarck told Time. His film is being heralded as the first major feature to examine the personal cost of entanglement with the Stasi. "There has been a tendency to see the former G.D.R. as a state...
...part, Panahi warns against giving the current regime too much credit - especially as he waits to see if Offside will be given permission for general release in Iranian theaters. "If anything has been achieved in Iranian cinema, it has been due to the creativity of the filmmakers," he says. "They have decided when and under which conditions to make their films, and what ways they could find for their films to be produced and screened." But all too often creativity means leaving sensitive bits on the cutting-room floor. Moghadam agreed to make several edits to Maxx - the government found...
...thinking of leaving his wife; an engaged couple testing their bond in Père Lachaise cemetery; of a couple long separated and replaying their cutting banter one last time. Without exception, through good episodes and no-so-good ones, the movie is about love of cinema - and of the city that gave it birth and was the location and inspiration for many of its masterpieces...
...show up a half-hour early for the big movies, chat with our film-critic friends, compare notes, plan the next day of too many screenings that, by the Festival's end, are never quite enough. For us, Cannes is the beginning of cinema's liturgical year, our favorite rite of spring, a time for total immersion in international cinema, at a 12-day party (with lots of work, mind you) on the Côte d'Azur. We adore Cannes...
...departmental music courses and two film courses will count for Literature and Arts B: Music 1a, “Introduction to Music I;” Music 1b, “Introduction to Music II;” Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 71, “Silent Cinema;” and VES 72, “Sound Cinema.” Government 1060, “The History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy;” Government 1061, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy;” and Philosophy 178, “Equality...