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...Russian play imported to Japan, with its dark humor and dour humanity intact--indeed, italicized? That's what Akira Kurosawa managed in 1957 with his faithful film of Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...this 1955 crime drama. Alas, neither he nor Welles--the film's star, writer and director--got his wish. Arkadin was taken from Welles, its convoluted form ironed out and the result renamed Confidential Report. At least seven versions of the film exist, none to his specifications. This superb Criterion DVD pack offers three variations, including a new "complete" assembly. In any form, it's a rococo mix of Citizen Kane and The Third Man: a study of a rich man's power and isolation amid the seedy, greedy flotsam of postwar Europe. In a way, this...
...show of disregard for multilateralism and compromise” but rather a vote for effective human rights protection. The new Council is not an improvement from its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission. Other than where a country is located, there is not a single criterion for membership, and countries must rotate off the Council after a two-year term. Thus, the new organization merely ensures that human rights abusers will continue to occupy seats on the Council and that countries which value and protect human rights will lose their seats after two years. There is no hope for effective...
...skirts irrelevance by positing itself as a response to the current trend towards a gender-neutral society. Mansfield convincingly argues that the gender-neutrality revolution represents an unprecedented shift in human social organization: no society before our own has so programmatically sought to eliminate gender as a criterion for determining occupation and social role...
...about this new collection which contains over 100 poems, drafts, and fragments. Bishop, who taught at Harvard from 1970 to 1977, published less than 90 poems in six collections during her lifetime. Vendler’s voice of criticism, while loud, has been mostly alone. Writing in The New Criterion, William Logan, a poet and professor at the University of Florida, noted that “readers will be grateful to find the best of this raw material gathered by Alice Quinn.” David Orr, a poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, declared that...