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...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Berlin's art scene is booming, with droves of foreign artists and dealers setting up shop in the city. Uta Baier and Gerhard Charles Rump, art critics at the Berlin-based daily Die Welt, gave us the lowdown on their favorite venues. Künstlerhaus Bethanien The best thing about this former deaconesses' home in the hip Kreuzberg district, says Rump, is its presentation of artists who deal with "current topics like poverty and violence in their works." Dedicated to helping international artists since 1974, the venue, which...
...Whatever their focus, the book reviews, author profiles and general lowdown on Germany's literary scene should make you?as well as foreign editors and literary agents?hungrier for all things German. Tschuss...
...Professor Thomas Anz's short piece on post-reunification German lit, for instance, gives an overview of the different generations of authors at work since 1989, as well as the most important literary themes and forms of the period. Whatever their focus, the book reviews, author profiles and general lowdown on Germany's literary scene should make you - as well as foreign editors and literary agents - hungrier for all things German. Tschuss...
...Oscar this year for mobilizing an implacably vengeful rage as the father of a murdered girl in Mystic River. Before that, he turned his anger into the rancid sullenness of a tormented guitar player in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and made us sympathize with an unapologetic killer in Tim Robbins' death-row drama, Dead Man Walking. Let's call him a necessary actor. The movies always have a place for at least one causeless rebel whose choler is both enigmatic and unappeasable. Maybe, at 43, Penn has learned to speak politely in public...
...most actor-y actor; his technique is out front for all to applaud; his dark psychic energy can lead viewers to admiring him rather than understanding the character. That's why roles that allow him to strut his rough anxiety--as in Dead Man Walking and Sweet and Lowdown--are his catnip. Brooding, conflicted, R-rated character studies like Mystic River and 21 Grams: these are natural Sean Penn films...