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...Amendment, and recollection of a Time magazine caption: “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” Although a disclaimer at the bottom of every NTFU page purports domicile in the Netherlands and immunity to prosecution through Dutch law, its opening banner laments “America isn’t easy…Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would...
...making a predictable propaganda film. "I did not make what they wanted me to make," he says. Critics are impressed, too. The film, which has been sold in 45 countries, won the Blue Angel award for best European film at the Berlin Film Festival in February - it is a Dutch-German-French production - as well as the festival's Amnesty International film prize and the Berliner Morgenpost readers' prize for best film. It received strong reviews in France, where it opened earlier this month. It opens in Germany in late September and in Britain early next year. Abu-Assad...
...confirms the significance of other developments. There's the retirement of Joschka Fischer, the iconic figure of the politics of rebellion; the discovery that many young European Catholics are more traditionally devout than their parents; even, perhaps, the rejection by younger voters of the draft E.U. constitution in the Dutch and French referendums. Put all that together and you can detect the start of something new. To a remarkable degree, the intellectual climate of Western Europe continues to be set by the convulsions of the 1960s. That's understandable. Those heady days on the streets of Berlin, Paris...
Turning things upside down is de rigueur for the Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, of Viktor & Rolf, who showed their collection backward and upside down, literally. There was a fake runway on the ceiling, and the models came out with dresses pinned hemside up. Even though the clothes, back in the showroom at least, are quite classical and romantic, the message is clear: time for something...
...wake of the Fazio-Fiorani revelations, BPI's bid for Antonveneta has been blocked by magistrates, and its rival, Dutch bank ABN Amro, has taken a majority stake in Antonveneta, making it the first foreign owner of a major Italian lender. Meanwhile, Fiorani, under investigation for allegations of insider trading, market rigging and giving false statements, has resigned as BPI chief...