Word: fictions
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...Merging fiction with reality, Segal’s sixth novel, “The Class,” published in 1986, follows five fictitious members of the Harvard class of 1985, culminating in their 25th class reunion...
Soderbergh's film has one admirable quality: the big huevos of cinematic ambition. Too many of the European films at the festival erred on the side of minimalism, both in scope and style. They begin by promising thrills out of classic crime fiction - an immigrant marriage-and-murder plot in The Silence of Lorna, a wife falling for the man who sent her husband to jail in Three Monkeys, a woman who's afraid she ran over someone in Lucrecia Martel's widely praised Argentine film, The Headless Woman - before turning sullenly, claustrophobically inward. For many vaunted directors at Cannes...
...feature here in 1989. That's when sex, lies, and videotape proved itself a come-from-nowhere winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1989, then a sizable commercial success, Quentin Tarantino showed Reservoir Dogs at Cannes in 1992, but that was the merest fanfare to his Pulp Fiction, a Palme d'Or triumph in 1994 and probably the defining movie - certainly the most vivid, film-wise comic epic - of its decade...
...early 17th Century” and count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement this fall. The acting chair of the comparative literature department also saw two of her courses welcomed into the new curriculum. Susan R. Suleiman’s “French 132b. 20th-Century French Fiction II: The Experimental Mode” and Literature & Arts C-55: “Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics between the Wars” were approved for the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding category. English professor Helen Vendler’s class, Literature and Arts...
...Vicky is immediately attracted to a local painter, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem, this year's Oscar winner for No Country for Old Men). He is one of those artists, found mostly in fiction (and in the fantasies of artists), whose true vocation is mixing up the hearts of the many women who fall into his bed. Their avid emotions are the canvas on which he splashes the bright strokes of his evanescent ardor. Cristina, ready for an adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany...