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Departures is nakedly manipulative. Its director, Yôjirô Takita, doesn’t show any sensitivity to tone or ...
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Archive for August, 2009

M83 - Saturdays=Youth

Posted by Pranav Dhingra On August - 31 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

“Oh we flee the scene of our little crime
We feel so free
But the hounds of law they bite our heels
As we retreat
Up to the planets up to the bodies of the galaxy
Of the galaxy we fly we feed we suck we bleed we need…”

With these words, M83 takes you on a rapturous journey [...]

Forbidden Games - René Clément

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On August - 27 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Forbidden Games presents a delicate balance, contrasting as it does the innocence of children with the grim reality of war. As German planes fly over France, dropping bombs behind them, two children - Michel (Georges Poujouly) and Paulette (Brigitte Fossey) – come face-to-face with death for the first time and in their efforts to understand [...]

Different cultures, One view - Charles Meacham Photography

Posted by Culturazzi On August - 26 - 2009 3 COMMENTS

Charles Meacham is an American photographer living and working from Taipei, Taiwan, and  has been in the photography profession for the past 6 years. Charles started out with travel photography but considers himself to be more of a photojournalist. Many of Charles’ pictures are taken while traveling, but the photographer handles two main subjects – [...]

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Posted by Samakshi On August - 23 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The epigraph of Things Fall Apart quotes the above four lines from Yeats’ poem. While the original lines of Yeats’ poem continue with blasphemous details of his own era – full [...]

Lost Agatha Christie tale debuts today

Posted by Culturazzi News On August - 22 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

An unpublished Agatha Christie short story, The Capture of Cerberus, will appear in print for the first time today, the CBC CA reported.
The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain acquired the rights to publish the story and will begin serializing it in today’s edition. Written just before the Second World War, the short story features the [...]

Sublime, Mystical, Timeless: The artwork of Roi James

Posted by Culturazzi On August - 20 - 2009 6 COMMENTS

Roi James is an artist from Austin, Texas who has been in the artistic profession for the past 13 years. Roi, whose work resides in many prestigious private collections throughout central Texas and the United States, was a professional musician in his 20’s and rediscovered fine art when he was almost 30.
The foundation of Roi’s [...]

Banksy art show attracts millions to Bristol

Posted by Culturazzi News On August - 18 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

The massive, free Banksy exhibit in the British artist’s hometown of Bristol this summer has already more than doubled its expected attendance, with organizers extending its hours before the show draws to a close, CBC CA reported. Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery has drawn more than 230,000 visitors since it opened the surprise [...]

The Story in Faces: David Lazar Photography

Posted by Culturazzi On August - 18 - 2009 2 COMMENTS

David Lazar is a photographer from Brisbane, Australia, practicing photography for the past 5 years. David, who is primarily a musician, seriously took up photography after he completed a Master of Music in film composition in 2004. David’s photography gained mileage when he started to travel extensively and display his travel photos online. His pictures [...]

Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley

Posted by Daniel Montgomery On August - 16 - 2009 1 COMMENT

The film opens with a message worth quoting in full: “Sita Sings the Blues is an audience-funded project released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, except for certain songs under restrictive licenses required by the respective copyright holders.” Next begin the production credits: “Your Name Here presents … in association with Your Money … [...]

Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein

Posted by Stephanie Lundahl On August - 14 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS

Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin is a thrilling, compact classic of Russian cinema that remains fresh and interesting even though it has been watched and talked about for decades. Approaching it for the first time more than 80 years after the fact, after it has influenced countless films and filmmakers and been celebrated as one of [...]

  • On The Canvas - Vladimir Kush

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Police recovers Picasso’s Little Guitar

Art News, News

The Roman police have recovered Picasso's Little Guitar, from a local businessman, CBC news reported. ...

Gold fresco by Richard Wright wins Turner Prize

Art News, News

Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright, who created a gorgeous fresco in gold leaf, has won this ...

Nabokov’s unfinished novel reappears

Literature News, News

Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and ...

Paltrow joins Kidman’s transsexual film The Danish Girl

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Gwyneth Paltrow has signed on to The Danish Girl, a film chronicling the real-life story ...

Haitian-born Montrealer wins Blue Met writing prize

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Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-born Montrealer known for his provocative and thoughtful novels, has won the ...

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