Word: panning
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...this year attached itself to The Orphanage, a Spanish thriller written by Sergio G. Sanchez, directed by first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona and shown in the little-attended Critics' Week section. The movie does have a pedigree: it was executive-produced by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker whose Pan's Labyrinth had its world premiere at last year's festival before becoming a surprise hit and an Oscar-winner in the States. The Orphanage has the same vital vibe: the sense that all crafts of filmmaking are bent to leading us into another, darker, magical world. The happy news...
...Women’s Basketball Collegiate Committee announced last week that Kathy Delaney-Smith, head coach of the Harvard women’s basketball team, has been named to the coaching staff of the U.S. Pan American Games team. After leading the Crimson to an Ivy League championship during the 2006-2007 season, Delaney-Smith returns to the international stage, where she has enjoyed success in the past. In 2005, as the head coach of the USA World University Games team, she led her squad to a 8-0 mark and a gold medal. Dawn Staley, a former USA National...
...PAN'S LABYRINTH...
...After Reflections began, a pan-Asian identity was created,” Vasan said. “The various Asian organizations now co-sponser many more events, like the joint relief efforts for the Asian earthquakes...
Implicitly or explicitly, the demographic “problem” depends on a link between contemporary Europe’s virtues and its Christian demography. The very idea of pan-European values is questionable, but assuming that they exist—perhaps as embodied by a commitment to political, social and economic freedom achieved through liberal democracy and capitalism—it’s unclear how such “European values” will be endangered by an Islamic minority. In a mostly non-religious Europe, the only link between the continent’s values...