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...movie takes a serious downturn when World War II hits. Frears attempts to add gravity by using WWII themes, yet this only reveals how slight a comedy of manners the first part is. The director’s juxtaposition of actual stock footage of the war—including the bombing of London—against the theater’s musical numbers featuring naked girls highlights the falsity of the film’s recreation of the time...
...meaning, and embarked on adventures in ambiguity and discovery.” Such liberation and adventures are certainly the case with Ms. Child’s most recent film, “The Future Is Behind You” (2004), a short that turns unidentified family photos from pre-WWII Germany into a story of Child’s own creation. The film will be shown on Nov. 10 as part of Balagan Shorts, a series of short films sponsored by the 17th Annual Boston Jewish Festival. “Out of fragments, films of bodies in a domestic space...
Told from two generations later and a world apart, Shane White's North Country (NBM; 96 pages; $14) seems superficially completely different from The Quitter. Where Pekar explores the life of a Jewish immigrant's son in post-WWII urban America, White's experience is that of an nth-generation non-denominational Christian growing up as the child of Vietnam-era parents in the farmland of upstate New York. In spite of this, both books share themes of violence, the legacy of parental neglect, and the power of personal expression to move people beyond their crushing circumstances. For a first...
Stephen looks for the untold story—those of a WWII German soldier, Native American students and tenured female faculty. When he was a mere frosh, his older sister warned him against writing for the Crim—except for FM. We’re thankful for the exception and thrilled that this wickedly funny but thoughtful writer is now an editor...
Great Britain started the Marshall Scholarship program in 1953 to thank the U.S. for the post-WWII aid that it granted Europe under U.S. Gen. George C. Marshall’s direction...