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That is the case that publications director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies June C. Erlick makes in her new book Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced. The book, from which Erlick read at the Harvard Coop last week, tells of Irma Flaquer, a Guatemalan who disappeared...
...FILM | Irma...
...wonderfully idiosyncratic French classic. A neurotic imaginative director is trying to remake Louis Feuillade’s classic silent thriller serial Les Vampires, but the plans go awry as plans are wont to do. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung, as herself, comes to Paris to take the lead role, Irma Vep. Soon, however, she is waylaid by semi-psychotic journalists lecturing her on the future of cinema and strange, frightening dreams that seem to be connected to the project. This bizarre and amazing satire of modern French cinema and culture is a delightful romp with surprisingly deep performances...
...Today, in a press conference with the Jury, we got some answers. Turner said that, in the long discussions, ?we adjusted to each other?s thoughts.? Explaining the Prix du Jury (typically given to a film, not a performer) that went to Irma P. Hall, lead actress of the Coen brothers? comedy ?The Ladykillers,? Tarantino said, ?Tilda wanted to give her a Force of Nature prize.? The Prix du Scenario (screenplay) prize to the French drama ?Comme une image? was, Quentin said, ?one of the easier awards to give.? As for ?Fahrenheit,? he stressed that the prize was given...
...brothers’ limp remake of a classic Alec Guinness comedy has its occasional laughs, but ends up becoming boring in its pursuit of essentially sweet comedy. Tom Hanks is the leader of a gang of robbers forced to masquerade as a band in order to rent church-lady Irma P. Hall’s basement because it connects to the basement of their target. Although the Coens’ affection for southern tradition is sweet and the manic third act brings things up a notch, it isn’t enough to save this essentially mediocre film...