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Such was not the case in the country’s earlier, perhaps more xenophobic days. The films of director Yasujiro Ozu, made between 1929 and 1962, were long thought to be too nuanced for the international market. Unlike Kurosawa, whose films featured samurai and other overtly stereotyped Japanese characters...
The subject, we know, was the Middle-earth wars. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books handed Jackson a quest story involving dozens of exotic species and hundreds of dreamlike or infernal settings. Over a seven-year stretch in his native New Zealand, Jackson brought this vast canvas...
Sampling the expanse of exotic cheeses, fine fruits and candied nuts, James L.M. Fisher ’06 explains that he uses his Friends membership to the fullest, attending several ‘art breaks’ throughout the year. These small seminars feature guided museum tours with the curator...
GLOBAL LIFE A22 India's got it all--fine palaces, serene beauty, tasty cuisine, exotic resorts. And a lousy infrastructure
This exhibition features the paintings that Paul Gauguin produced between his departure for Tahiti in 1891 and his death in the Marquesa Islands in 1903 are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The canvasses are among Gauguin’s most mysterious, colorful and exotic...