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...German cinema as a beacon of sophisticated drama and innovative technique. Kino, the top DVD label for silent films, offers a four-disc sampler of the director's early work, all from 1919 to 1921, including lavish historical dramas (Anna Boleyn), mountain films (The Wildcat, with a very feral Pola Negri) and delightful comedies. Best is The Oyster Princess, "a grotesque in four acts," in which the director sets a pinwheeling series of sight gags in motion like a vaudevillian with his spinning plates. He's not yet working at his Hollywood level, but he's getting there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 DVD Sets To Get | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...wonder: are American kids so different from Europeans? In Europe, scenes of sexuality that would be proscribed in the U.S. often get a pass. Leos Carax's 1999 Pola X contained a love scene with a somberly lighted but unmistakable view of an erect penis, yet it received a U in France, the equivalent of our G. (The film had a limited, unrated release in the States.) Y tu mama tambien, Alfonso Cuaron's Mexican comedy-drama about two teenage boys and the slightly older woman they take on a jaunt, could be seen by 12-year-olds in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...Nora and then their two children moved among and around European cities--Pola, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, Paris--Joyce found clerical and teaching jobs that provided subsistence to his family and his writing. His first published book of fiction, Dubliners (1914), contained 15 stories short on conventional plots but long on evocative atmosphere and language. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) provided a remarkably objective and linguistically complex account of Stephen Dedalus, i.e. James Joyce, from his birth to his decision to leave Dublin in pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Writer JAMES JOYCE | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...somber progression, the names floated over the air and across the ocean. Pola Alvarez, Jaime Diaz, Orlando Garcia, Ernesto Molina Sosa. For 95 minutes, until he became too hoarse to continue, Miami radio personality Tomas Garcia Fuste broadcast a list of 1,793 Cubans who fled their country last week only to wind up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. For listeners on Castro's island, the roll call provided welcome assurance that their loved ones had at least not perished in the treacherous Florida Straits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splits in the Family | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

Carmen A. Pola, a former advisor to BostonMayor Ray Flynn, says, "Remigio is the type ofperson that society needs, in particular theSpanish community. He has a clear understanding ofproblems in out society, especially poverty." Shecredits Cruz with "making young people,particularly poor Hispanic youngsters, feel thatanything is possible...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Cruzing the Streets of Boston | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

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