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...director José Luis Guerín’s films, presented Feb. 9-11 at the Carpenter Center, as “an attempt to return to the fundamental properties of cinema.” Well-known abroad, but not in America, Guerín blends fact and fiction in movies that not only challenge the viewer’s conception of reality and truth, but also his conception of a movie itself. Guerín screened his films in person as a part of the HFA’s “Ibero-American cinema” series...
...Which kids? And whose? A 6-year-old? Of course not. But some teens are ready to empathize with killers in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Stranger--assigned by high schools, which have greater coercive power than even Viacom does. Others are barely ready for young-adult fiction. Dexter is not The Stranger, but it's not Saw either. Decency protests, however, don't make such distinctions. Killers are killers. One slice fits...
...members usually dismissed science fiction and horror as candidates for Best Picture--from the 1933 King Kong (just a trick movie) to Psycho (just an exercise in sadism from a director, Alfred Hitchcock, who should know better) to 2001 (what was that about?). Jaws and Star Wars did get Best Picture nominations but didn't take the top prize. See, these weren't people movies; they were simply the sum of their monster or sci-fi special effects...
...Advocate. However, the HBR was not strictly established as a forum for literary criticism but also as a community for writers. “One thing we try to foster is a wide variety of styles,” says Marta M. Figlerowitz ’09, the former fiction editor of The Advocate and current HBR editor-in-chief. “We are aiming towards something that can be read leisurely but that isn’t too compressed. The niche between purely academic and purely creative is a good one to explore...
...member critics voted on the first “Best Recommended” list, plus additional finalists and winners of its yearly book awards. Writers like John Updike ’54 and Cynthia Ozick were able to vote for one book in each of three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. For their second list, released on Tuesday, the NBCC changed the name of the project to “The NBCC’s Good Reads.” Wednesday’s event, moderated by Boston Globe writer David Mehegan, was part of a series of panels...