The world has changed drastically since the Up project began in 1964. Our multimedia culture produces virtual worlds like Facebook, YouTube, and the blogosphere. We broadcast our lives to each other daily — some of us hourly or minutely who habitually announce what we’ve had for lunch on Twitter. I wonder if any of us [...]

Had it premiered in theaters, Wit would have contended for Oscars. Directed by Mike Nichols and adapted by Nichols and star Emma Thompson from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson, it premiered on the HBO network on March 24, 2001, and is available on DVD. It is as perfect a film on the subject [...]

Alice Munro collected the Man Booker International Prize 2009 during a ceremony at Trinity College Dublin on 25 June 2009. The Canadian writer received a trophy along with the £60,000 award, the Man Booker Prize website reported.

It is a day of mourning for the world of music as Michael Jackson, famously known as the King of Pop died of cardiac arrest at 3 am (IST) in Los Angeles. The pop star was aged 50.
Ambulance and doctors were called to the Jackson’s Beverly Hills home at noon yesterday after the singer stopped [...]

The 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented on 7 March, 2010, will have 10 feature films competing in the Best Picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced on Wednesday. The number of nominees in other major categories will remain at five.
The regulation of 10 films in competition [...]

Portishead have been an enigma to many from the day they released Dummy back in 1994, which went on to win the Mercury Prize and sell more than 150,000 copies with minimal press attention. A three-year long hiatus produced Portishead (1997) after which the band hibernated for a long eleven years, to come out with [...]

The silence of God has never been more strident than in Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman’s 1972 masterpiece. In fact it is so loud that it keeps the inhabitants of an old manor awake all the time. They are four women; Agnes (Harriet Andersson) who is dying of womb cancer, her sisters Maria (Liv Ullmann) [...]

Fifteen drawings Salvador Dali made for a doctor who treated him for skin cancer will be going on exhibit for the first time next Saturday at the University of Buffalo.
The University at Buffalo’s Anderson Gallery plans to display the works of the Spanish surrealist for two months in summer.
The university articulates in a release that [...]

Western Australian author Tim Winton has won the Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s most important literary prize, for the fourth time. His novel Breath won the coveted literary prize of £20,000, on Thursday, about 25 years after he first won the prize with Shallows in 1984.
Winton won for the same prize in 1992 with Cloudstreet and [...]

Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt is a film about making a film, about the destruction of a marriage, and the conflict between American and European filmmaking interests. It is a film driven by character and theory rather than plot development, and it requires effort on the part of the audience, asking us to give as well as [...]