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...could be called ambitious mediocrities - all had the tone of apocalyptic despair. Brazilian director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center. And the two main Palme d'Or contenders showed how the world could end in America: with...
State Representative Alice K. Wolf, D-Cambridge, said she wanted to see HLS conduct a study of the current use of its buildings before it decided to proceed with expansion...
When Henry Louis Gates, Jr. telephoned me on the morning the Pulitzers were announced, he offered no hint that my book was under consideration. He called simply to relay the news that the book had received the Aniston Wolf prize for the best book in race relations, a huge thrill in and of itself...
Malcolm skews a bit older, with more roughhouse and cynicism, but Muniz's feature films are traditional anxiety fantasies for kids: Big Fat Liar put some brisk wit into its boy-who-cried-wolf plot; Cody Banks is a wan recycling of Spy Kids with a 007 fixation. The Bynes and Duff movie vehicles are more nakedly retro. What a Girl Wants is based on the '50s Sandra Dee bauble The Reluctant Debutante, while The Lizzie McGuire Movie could be Gidget Goes to Rome with an updated pop score. Both put their budding stars in glamorous foreign capitals (London...
...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...