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...class, and the sweeping scope of this study envelops their desperate desire for the possibility of keeping their religious and cultural customs in the face of the 19th century’s far ranging changes. By the end of this intriguing film, the audience has been taken on a journey through philosophy, history, sci-fi and, in total, the whole of African history. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
French director Robert Bresson’s 1966 classic is re-released to a public desperately in need of cinema that one imdb commentator terms “Intolerably Beautiful.” The film follows the journey of Balthazar, a donkey, from his happy early life, through his sojurn as a downtrodden beast of burden to his happy end-of-life working for a miller who thinks he is a reincarnated Saint. His journey parallels that of the lovely young girl who originally named Balthazar as she grows out of her beautific childhood into a terrible relationship where...
With Walking Tall, Johnson extends his convincing farewell to the days of five-minute mostly-mute bit parts, exemplified by his debut role as the Scorpion King in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. The journey began with the 2002 Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King and continued with last year’s The Rundown, for which he received a fair amount of critical praise. Johnson, however, was not content to expand just his acting chops in only his third lead role in a feature film, and he relished the opportunity to creatively contribute to Walking Tall from...
...century ago, the largest and arguably most beautiful chamber became a 10,000-seat concert hall, attracting some of the world's most famous performers, including legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Today, small electric trains carry visitors on a 5-km ride to Postojna's heart; from there the journey is on foot, through what British sculptor Henry Moore described as "nature's most wonderful gallery." Watch out for Proteus anguinus?the "human fish," a colorless, eyeless newtlike creature with legs and gills that's unique to Postojna. A tour of the caves costs...
...year-old boy in Poprad, north Slovakia, he saw a reproduction of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows at a friend's house, and fell in love. "I had no idea such art existed," he says. "We didn't have any pictures at home." That glimpse began a journey that has culminated in the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, a modern art gallery in the unlikely setting of an artificial peninsula jutting into the Danube's Gabc?kovo reservoir, some 15 km south of Bratislava. After teaching himself art history and doing a stint as a police investigator, Polakovic made repeated pilgrimages...