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...income-which would come from us taxpayers-would go to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have the right to ask him what he believes. Remember, this is a church that until the late 1970s believed blacks couldn't go to the highest tier of heaven, limits women's rights and believes in a history of the New World that is at odds with scientific facts. We cannot refrain from a critical analysis of what people believe out of some sort of courtesy. Politicians' faith is a very public thing. Benjamin E. Nardolilli, Arlington, Virginia...
...income - which would come from us taxpayers - would go to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have the right to ask him what he believes. Remember, this is a church that, until the late 1970s, believed blacks couldn't go to the highest tier of heaven, limits women's rights and believes in a history of the New World that is at odds with scientific facts. We cannot refrain from a critical analysis of what people believe out of some sort of courtesy. Politicians' faith is a very public thing. Benjamin E. Nardolilli, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...
...watching? Let us count the ways: 1) lumbered across the wide stage to shake the hands of all 10 Jury members; 2) mispronounced the name of his lead actor (Mathieu Amalric) and the biggest international star in the cast (Max Von Sydow); 3) invoked the pseudo-French song "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (from the Hollywood musical Gigi) to acknowledge the film's five lovely supporting actresses, none of them little girls; 4) insulted his host country, then tried to turn it into a compliment ("Many times they say, 'The Problem with France is the French,' but that...
...films tagged as front-runners - 4 Months, Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Carlos Reygadas' Stellet Licht, Fatih Akim's German-Turkish family drama The Edge of Heaven and the Coens' adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel - all but one was lauded tonight. The one you might be looking forward to: the Coen movie...
...mentioned when journalists write about the new surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky. In its way the film...