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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the Synoptic Gospels, Dogma has a happy ending. Two, in fact. In the movie, God comes to earth, sets things right, then does a handstand. In the drama behind the film, Lions Gate, an independent distributor, opens Dogma this week after successful screenings at festivals in Cannes, Toronto and New York City. "Now we can put the rest of the stuff behind us and start fretting about the box office," Smith says. "I'm hoping that when people see the film, they'll say, 'Oh, it's not the movie that flips the bird at the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can God Take A Joke? | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...modern navigation. It was also one of the surprise publishing successes of 1995. Her new book adds a little-known personal dimension to the life of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Pisan mathematician and astronomer who was tried, convicted and humbled for challenging church dogma that placed the earth at the center of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Footnotes No Longer | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...From this movement emerged the visually stunning Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang Yuan's films embody a directional shift in Chinese film. Instead of turning backward in time to locate and problematize the Chinese experience, Zhang turns inward. His films capture modern psychological tales rather than distanced histories. However, the Fifth Generations' affinity for setting their films in the pre-Revolutionary past was more than stylistic choice-it was practical necessity. State monopoly funding of films and a wary censorship board forced any critique of the regime to be shrouded in allegory. Zhang bypassed...

Author: By Shannon May, | Title: Cinemanic -- ZHANG YUAN: A Portrait of the Young Artist | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

After a brief period of light (optimism?), darkness falls upon the Earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...particular, Ham said that genetic evidence may not show how the first plants and animals evolved into the wide variety of life on earth today...

Author: By Scott A. Rechler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Debate Creationsit Theories | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

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