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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That was a very distant time. Today, film directors prefer to make movies based on old movies, not plumb the pools of their own artistry. Hollywood looks back, not inward. Nine, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) and scripted by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and Michael Tolkin (The Player), wants to do both: engage in a little navel-gazing while summoning the glories of Italian cinema in the Cinecitta era of the 1960s. Find a role for Sophia Loren! Cast Kidman as an amalgam of Claudia Cardinale and Anita Ekberg! And, just as anachronistic, have people sing their troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine: Not a 10 and Certainly Not an 8-1/2 | 12/25/2009 | See Source »

...certain kinds of psychological or realist fiction,” he says, “peoples’ inward states appear to be determined mostly by who they fall in love with or how their families work. But when you read science fiction attentively you see how much of an individual’s life is guided not by psychology, and not by the unconscious so much as by technological and material circumstances—the difficulty of obtaining information, the availability of transport fuel, the speed of communications...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Sci Fi Into the Classroom | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...Neglect. Our inward-looking culture didn't heed the warning signs from around the world - and from within our own country - that Islamic terrorism was heading for our shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Many people in France talk of the "Asterix syndrome" and the "village gaulois" (Gallic village), the idea that tiny, embattled France needs to defend itself against the encroaching cultural influences of the U.S., or the English language, or both. Usually used pejoratively, the terms indicate an inward, backward-looking way of seeing the world. The sentiment is also tied up with the French obsession with its cultural exception, the various rules and regulations designed to protect the French way of life from outside forces: French singers must sing in French, English words are banned from advertising, half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asterix at 50: The Comic Hero Conquers the World | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...world—the United States, China, and Russia—all hold permanent seats. The two-year inclusion of five other countries, however, demonstrates just how limited non-permanent members’ influence must be. Bosnia is a nation divided, barely functioning as a country. It must look inward to reviving its own government in addition to now presumably eyeing global security. Lebanon, for its part, currently has UN peacekeepers within its borders following Israel’s invasion in 2006—and only two days ago new Israeli spy devices from that war were found within...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Open Up the Club | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

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