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...final year, a young director casting her first feature - a cinema verité take on slum life in Bombay - came to the school scouting for talent. "One of the things I'm slightly proud of is kind of discovering Irrfan," says Mira Nair, who cast Khan as a letter writer in Salaam Bombay! His role was edited down to a fleeting appearance, but Nair says that even then, Khan was different. "I was very, very struck by his being in the part rather than acting," she recalls. "He wasn't striving. His striving was invisible...
...often goes hand in hand with less appealing hallmarks of developing nations - harsh working conditions and unenforced labor laws. Governments in most developing nations weren't monitoring conditions, so Western firms found themselves "held responsible for problems they didn't really know existed," says Daniel Viederman, executive director of Verité, a U.S.-based NGO that investigates workplace conditions globally...
There is only one dark depth on Earth that the men of Harvard will not penetrate in search of verit-ass: Wellesley...
There is only one dark depth on Earth that the men of Harvard will not penetrate in search of verit-ass: Wellesley...
...Korean films currently doing the festival rounds challenge both censors and viewers. Im Sang Soo's Tears is a mindlessly violent, sex-charged flick shot in cine-verité style in a hellish-looking Seoul. Full of pimps, prostitutes and drugs galore, it's grubby stuff with girls furtively delivering hand shandies (though the filmmaker doesn't show the offending organs), and the cold, unfelt sex doesn't make for aesthetic delirium, but then neither should it. This is cinematic confrontation that resists escape. Kim Tae Yong's Memento Mori is a contemporary teenage-lesbo-horror-psycho casserole that keeps...