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...more than a generation. Both wars have followed a similar progression: a toppling of the central government that was followed by years of warlord feuding (18 U.S. soldiers died protecting a U.N. mission in Mogadishu in 1993, an episode that later became the subject of the book and film Black Hawk Down) and then the rise of a movement - the Taliban in Afghanistan, al-Shabab in Somalia - that proposed an extremist vision of Islam as a solution to the lawlessness. The two countries are both poor and populated mostly, it can often seem, by men with a uniform taste...
...five years in the West Bank village of Bil'in, there have been weekly rallies against the Israeli separation barrier, a section of which runs through the town. On Feb. 12, villagers protested while dressed as members of the Na'vi tribe from the 3-D blockbuster Avatar. The film, with its themes of oppression and resistance, has struck a particular chord with Palestinians, who now have cause to celebrate. The wall is being rerouted following the final implementation of a 2007 Israeli Supreme Court order; the move returns about 700,000 square meters of land to Bil'in residents...
Shutter Island, the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised...
...films have been competing with each other ever since they premiered at last May's Cannes Film Festival, where The White Ribbon took first prize and A Prophet came in second. Haneke's picture is high-brow caviar, while Audiard's is more a crowd pleaser. On Saturday, The White Ribbon won the top award from the American Society of Cinematographers, beating Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Nine and solidifying its chances to win the Oscar in this category. Ah, but a week ago, at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, A Prophet beat...
When Elle Woods applied to Harvard Law School, she hired a director to film her admissions video—which eventually got her accepted. It seems like Tufts is now encouraging students to do the same, save the hiring a director part, of course...