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...into a premature senility. What we got, mostly, were cautious reprises of top directors, earlier pictures - from European minimalism, by Euro-faves like the Dardenne brothers and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (which, you have to admit, is a great name) - to Hollywood gigantism from the Indiana Jones team. The Riviera fortnight has been so stodgy that we almost welcomed a wild, four-and-a-half hour misfire like Steven Soderbergh's Che. But now our (my) patience has been rewarded, our (my) biliousness calmed. One good movie can do that. In 2006, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth showed...
...liturgical year and a two-week binge of international cinema. Among the critics on board were J. Hoberman (The Village Voice), A.O. Scott (New York Times), Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly), Leah Rozen (People), Melissa Anderson (Time Out New York) and your two TIME.com correspondents, heading for our 35th Cannes fortnight. (We were teens when we first came here, practically...
...anymore; her eyes fastened upon the dirty straw at her feet, trampled into dirt. She said, softly: “Perhaps we can find a mare to begin with. A gentle mare.”“There is a stallion that my lord bought a fortnight ago,” he said. “He is a wild breed, from the North of England, and we have not broken him yet. But he has an odd way with the fair sex. He will be gentle.”She could not speak. She only felt her head...
Welcome to Advising Fortnight Café! We aim to provide you with the highest quality meals and customer service possible in order to bribe you to concentrate in our department! Enjoy your meal, and please stay for the panel discussion afterwards. Please! Please? BREAKFAST Tea and Liebniz Cookies with Philosophy: Served with a side of metaphysics and sprinkled with a light hint of useless-later-in-life. History and Science Donuts and Coffee: History and Science go together like donuts and coffee! Peanut butter and jelly! Pilbeam and vodka! Tea Stop with Lady Godiva in the English Department: Lady Godiva...
...particularly bad this afternoon,” Felicity said, as though she wanted to hold him with his words, forbidding his departure. “You should tell Sophie that there’s no need to steep the pot for a whole fortnight.” This was one of Frederick’s sensitive points. Felicity knew it, and she continued. “Any intelligent man would have let her go right after your father’s funeral. In any case, he didn’t keep her around for her housework.”Frederick?...