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Before long, Pilar Cabrera, the affable proprietor of Casa de los Sabores B&B and an experienced cooking instructor, had put us all to work. My mother and sister cleaned peppers, I chopped cilantro, and two family friends who had accompanied us on the trip hovered over a pot of simmering milk. My father, as is his custom, absolved himself of cooking duties, although he stood by to sample anything ready for testing...
Directed by Marco Bellochio Peppercorn-Wormser/ The Criterion Collection 4 Stars Marco Bellocchio’s “Fists In the Pocket” follows a murderous epileptic as he begins killing his stuffy, embarrassing family. Oh, and he’s in love with his sister, his first victim is his blind mother, and his second victim is his mentally disabled epileptic brother. It’s an audacious directorial debut, particularly for Italy in 1965, still trying to stitch itself together after the war and, cinematically, completely in the thrall of neo-realism, which was just beginning...
...rough transition for the whole family. Sanjin’s sister had to learn English, take courses as a junior at Union-Endicott High School, and try to break into the social cliques that had already fully formed among her peers. Sanjin’s father Ibrahim was forced to take work below that of what he was accustomed; an engineer in Bosnia, his education wasn’t deemed sufficient for an engineering job in the States. Sanjin’s mother stayed at home...
...Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that I respect very much. Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and then Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founding father of Pakistan [Muhammed Ali Jinnah], who helped him create my country. These two are personalities that inspire me.THC: You mentioned earlier the necessity of an internal drive for change. Could you speak a little bit more about this, and about what American college students could...
...daughter of one of America’s most cherished directors and actors, and the sister of “Easy Rider,” Fonda differs from her family. “Acting and filmmaking was never the center of my life the way it was for my brother and my father,” she says; instead, she was “always prepared to let that part of my life drop in order to pursue a relationship or a political cause or something like that...