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...Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from its complex script (by the novelist Li Qiang), its imperfect characters and its emotional restraint in depicting the harshness of daily life in China...
...result of Chandler’s sloppiness is that all the insights and compelling information that do appear seems to be sheer accident rather than the work of a skillful writer. The interviews, though entertaining, do not give a complete portrait of Hitchcock, and the evidence surrounding them is not adequately investigated. We are asked to simply take people’s word for it, without any conclusions reached...
...Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions of one man with his work, his family, and his fellow Londoners. Perhaps the Iraq war is still too recent to be transformed into a backdrop to fiction, but more likely McEwan simply drops...
...careful, Harvard students: we have a spy in our midst. Author Sean Michael Green will be interviewing and researching at Harvard this month in preparation for his new book, which aims to paint an accurate portrait of campus life at the eight Ivy League schools...
...regular student Mass yesterday at St. Paul Parish on Mt. Auburn Street, a portrait of John Paul II rested in front of the podium, and attendees said a prayer for the late pope...