Arts Review
Aesthetic choices: Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun
By Stefan Steinberg, November 20, 2009
Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov’s The Sun presents a snapshot picture of the Japanese emperor Hirohito and is one of a series of films Sokurov has devoted to leading political figures.
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist
By David Walsh, November 20, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 2
By David Walsh, November 19, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
An evaluation of Roman Polanski as an artist—Part 1
By David Walsh, November 18, 2009
Filmmaker Roman Polanski remains in a Zurich jail cell, while his lawyers fight the efforts by US authorities to extradite him. The director has a half-century-long artistic career that needs to be as...
Not enough information: The Informant! directed by Steven Soderbergh
By Hiram Lee, November 11, 2009
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film takes on the true story of an FBI investigation into the price-fixing conspiracy at the Archer Daniels Midland company during the 1990s.
Making the “voice of the people” heard again: 70 years of Topic Records
By Paul Bond, November 10, 2009
The British folk music record label Topic has recently published a 7-CD and book set, Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People, to mark its 70th anniversary.
Music Review: The Monsters of Folk
By C.W. Rogers, November 6, 2009
The Monsters of Folk is a collaborative “supergroup” composed of Conner Oberst and multi-instrumentalist-producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, and singer-songwriter M...
Jane Campion’s Bright Star: The story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne
By Joanne Laurier, November 5, 2009
Based on the biography of John Keats by Andrew Motion, New Zealand-born director Jane Campion’s new movie Bright Star tells the story of the poet’s relationship with Fanny Brawne.
The “Hegel renaissance” and other questions: Part 1
A comment on The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
By Alexander Fangmann, November 3, 2009
Last year saw the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The volumes of the Cambridge Companion series contain collections of essays by scholars working on ...
The postwar novelist in regression: Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
By Andras Gyorgy, November 3, 2009
As we approach the second anniversary of American novelist Norman Mailer’s death, there appear more and more articles assessing his work over a lifetime. They mention only in passing, usually withou...
An exposure of corruption: Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail
By Mathew Benn, October 31, 2009
Afghanistan, on the Dollar Trail, written and directed by Paul Moreira and produced by Sue Spencer
The Invention of Lying: Telling the truth, or some of it
By Hiram Lee, October 20, 2009
Comedian Ricky Gervais makes his debut as a writer and director of feature films with a comedy set in a world in which human beings never developed the ability to lie.
