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...addition to the Grand Prize, Robert Redford’s sad attempt at a cinema chateau also awarded the film a prize for the advancement of science and technology in film. If Primer deserves any prize, it is a Razzie award for the most nauseating and incomprehensible science fiction film ever created...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

Filmed entirely in Afghanistan, September Tapes offers compelling evidence that claims of success there have been thoroughly fictionalized. Inexplicably, however, director Christian Johnston chose to fictionalize his exposé. The tapes chronicle the efforts of filmmaker Don Larson (George Calil) and his translator, Wali Zarif (Wali Razaqui) to record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The foibles in the fiction prompt a host of questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. Johnston aims to debunk the myths of the Afghani situation, but should have realized that original footage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

Indeed, Corgan counts the Beatles among his artistic influences for their ability to “channel the masses.” He also points to Bob Dylan, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and author William S. Burroughs...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poetry Billy Corgan’s New Gig | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...your knowledge of German literature doesn't get much further in the alphabet than G and H (Goethe, Grass, Hesse), a visit to www.litrix.de will prove literarily enlightening. The trilingual website (German, English and a third language that changes every year) introduces readers to a wide variety of new fiction, nonfiction and children's titles each month. Financed by the German Cultural Foundation and run by the Goethe Institute, the site is intended to promote among foreign readers an appreciation of the works of contemporary German authors - a laudable goal, given that the land of the Dichter und Denker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read All About It | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESSAY: Forward into the Past | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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