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...friend who says that the best buildings he has designed are those on difficult terrain, because he is then forced to consider every aspect of what he is building. But limitations and restrictions should not be so great that they paralyze you. TIME: Your films are frequently described as realist. How would you characterize your work? Kiarostami: People's views about my films are probably more correct than my own. My main influence is real life. But no matter how realistic and true to real life you are, film is still something man-made. TIME: What are the advantages...
...Most Singaporean novels, typically small-scale affairs about middle-class angst, would stop there. Lau is far more ambitious. In a magical realist style drawn from M?rquez, she weaves together an incredible range of historical and literary material, including Chinese myths, Singaporean folktales, the Cultural Revolution, Catholic theology and French existentialism. In this intellectually challenging tapestry are allusions to Borges meshed with Chinese opera, and characters who ride on tiger-shaped clouds mixed up with scholars who discuss Milan Kundera. If the new Asia defines itself by a creative fusion of Eastern and Western influences, then readers may find...
...spoils of victory would be distributed. To have a hand in the postwar reorganization of Iraq also explains Britain's judiciously rationed support for an attack. Tony Blair is not George W.'s "poodle," as his domestic critics are wont to ridicule him; he is a hard-nosed realist who is already thinking about an Iraq minus Saddam...
...says it had been suggested by the 1949 Italian neo-realist near-classic "Bitter Rice" - or, more precisely, by the sultry, skirt-hiking image of Silvana Mangano, who made the movie an international hit. "Lorna" had closer affinities to "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer...
...20th century American artist Edward Hopper, whose most iconic canvas is Nighthawks (1942). Stuart Free, who graduated from London's Central St. Martins art school in 1994, has painted 360 pictures of north London, which sell steadily through a local gallery. He doesn't mind being called an "urban realist," but doesn't know what he'd call himself: "In a way I'd rather just get on with it and call it something afterwards." In Westway he depicts a scene under a motorway, the curve of the road cutting off a generic blue sky. On the nearest strut...