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...their films as part of a series entitled New China, New Year. Jiang and Duan's films will also show at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival. While making The Secret of My Success, a hilariously honest account of a corrupt village election and a winner of the Silver Wolf award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Duan kept a CCTV decal stuck on the front of his camera. "It opens doors," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Bites | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...dazzling example of the power of politically charged cinema. Probably the most talked-about film of the year, Bowling for Columbine effectively condenses nearly a decade of American history into a digestible, moving meditation on the sources of American gun violence. That’s no small feat. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary. Bowling for Columbine screens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 4-10 | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 4-10 | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles and in its sympathy for an officer of Hitler’s vicious army to the east. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. The Pianist screens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 4-10 | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

...audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Talk to Her screens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 4-10 | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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