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Missing in this year’s best movie mix are the postmodern masterpieces the Academy still refuses to touch. Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was visceral, virtuoso filmmaking, a visual trip that delighted the senses while ruminating on the deepest human themes of love, loss and memory. Charlie Kaufman picked up his second original screenplay nomination for this gem, whose late spring release date crippled its chances of Oscar success. Tape the awards and pick this one up on DVD; as he did with the masterpiece Adaptation, Kaufman questioned our assumptions of what...
...testing to flush out bogus-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they are eating a Chinese truffle, there is no problem," says Michel Courvoisier, director of the French Federation of Truffle Growers. "But when a shop or restaurateur uses one in the place of the other, the consumer is ripped off. I suspect this happens...
...shrink away," says director Guédiguian, a communist. "It talks about the legend, about the King. The time is far enough away now for us to begin to see him as a whole." Guédiguian's main character, crafted in stunning depth and complexity by actor Michel Bouquet, is known simply as le Président; he smiles more and projects less personal authority than the original, but shares the same obsession with history, the same mix of pride and vulnerability. "It is Guédiguian's Mitterrand, not mine," says Védrine...
...desire to weave between genres and disciplines, and his need to crusade from Bosnia to Darfur, is precisely the problem. They argue that Lévy has failed to do the mental work of constructing and defending philosophical systems the way earlier titans like Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre did. "Previous generations of French intellectuals justified their entire careers on their conceptual work," says philosopher François Cusset, author of French Theory. "Before, the ideas came first and the thinker second; now it's reversed. BHL and the others are moralists who take...
...party," warns an official in the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Why turn on a fellow rightist? In part due to Julia's attack on the government during the hostage affair: he accused it of negligence, of using him as "a scapegoat," and said Foreign Minister Michel Barnier had been "completely useless" in a crisis "that should have been resolved in four days, not four months." Julia says he's happy to answer questions, but is also demanding a parliamentary inquiry so he can go public with what he says is proof his initiative had official backing...