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Meltingpod (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
One of my pics I chose to send you my best wishes for this new year with my friends Kinou and Pascale (theater company “La Matière”) performing “Yes, peut-être” from Marguerite Duras at l’Embobineuse at Marseille. “69…année érotique” (69…erotic year) wrote Gainsbourg for his sensual partner Jane Birkin…”2009…année érotique” could be sung as well (in French) [...]
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/20/2008
By my count, 44 titles were scratched off the M.I.A. for DVD list I made last year. A few were announced and then swiftly canceled (Ken Russell's The Devils , Patrice Leconte's The Hairdresser's Husband and The Perfume of Yvonne ) and others (like Marguerite Duras' Nathalie Granger , the Taviani brothers' Kaos , Sidney Lumet's Daniel , André Téchiné's Hotel America ) were curiously missing on my lists....
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 12/19/2008
As Vietnam's largest city, it has an energy and noise level that can be at once exhilarating and wearying.
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SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
* Awhile back I posted some vague thoughts about 10.30 PM SUMMER, a 1966 Jules Dassin film written by Marguerite Duras which I love, although nobody else ever had much positive to say about it. To my delight, the YouTube clip I put up attracted a very unusual response — Isabel Maria Perez Garcon, who appeared in [...]
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
"In its blunt, bludgeoning way, White Dog ranks among the toughest and most probing examinations of racism in American cinema," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times. "[Sam] Fuller's brute-force direction gives this outrageous allegory the hyperbolic treatment...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The late Marguerite Duras’s novels, with their accretion of visual detail and incantatory dialogue, lent themselves to movies, but Duras disliked others’ adaptations of her work and began, in the nineteen-sixties, to direct. Her fourth film, “Nathalie Granger” (in a two-disk set from Blaq Out / Facets), from 1972 . . .
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
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MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The committee behind France's most prestigious literary prize has given an exiled Afghan writer its top honor. Atiq Rahimi has been awarded the Goncourt prize for his French language novel "Syngue Sabour."
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
PARIS -- An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound.
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Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
She might not be your wife, but you've still got to get her something.
