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...afternoon for a special screening of his 2005 directorial debut, “The Lost City.” The screening was part of a Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations tribute to Garcia for his humanitarian work. Garcia has worked on behalf of hurricane victims, at-risk youth, and cancer patients during his career. The foundation’s director, S. Allen Counter, said Garcia was a natural choice for the honor. “Andy Garcia is very much respected by Cuban-American students for his support for democracy and freedom in Cuba and merging those ideas...
...helm this time is Kenneth Branagh, the actor-director who in his youth was seen as the hope of English-speaking theater - "the new Olivier," critics said - and who had one-upped Olivier by directing and starring in an acclaimed film of Shakespeare's Henry V while still in his 20s. The new script for Sleuth is by Harold Pinter, the most demanding and honored playwright of the past half-century. Pinter, after all, did win the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature; and at 77, this imperious Brit is surely beyond the worry of writing scripts for 14-year...
...film.“Speaking for myself as a 47-year-old who read this book when I was a little closer to the magic years of life...I’ve been having a growing frustration with what I call a lack of activism in the anti-bling youth,” he reflected. Penn admired McCandless’s pursuit to define himself, even if it was reckless and dramatic at times. He explained self-activism as “knowing the limits to test, not getting trapped in living for comfort in all times, revealing yourself...
...1950s and early '60s it was neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing the dinner dishes. Nobody felt slighted, and nobody called child protective services. How sad and ironic that television - primarily responsible for making a mishmash of family life - should inadvertently be the one to call attention...
...recent films have tried to do just that: Rang De Basanti made a realistic portrayal of disaffected Delhi youth; Omkara was an adaptation of Othello; and Khosla ka Ghosla was a realistic portrayal of a Delhi family's brush with unscrupulous estate agents...