Blindness, Burn After Reading, and more (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
Capsule reviews of films currently playing... By Matt Brunson Current Releases BLINDNESS After the back-to-back helming of two excellent motion pictures – City of God and The Constant Gardener – Fernando Meirelles now goes for the gold (Oscar?) with his adaptation of Jose Saramago's Nobel Prize-winning novel Blindness. In this film's unnamed city (the country and characters similarly go ...
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JURORS DISCUSS O.J.'S GUILTY VERDICT: Panelists say decision influenced heavily by secret audio tapes. *Seven jurors from the O.J. Simpson trial say their guilty verdict was influenced more by secret audio tapes and surveillance video than eyewitness accounts, reports the Associated Press.
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Finding lost items, supporting divorcees (Haaretz Daily)
One day last winter, the phone rang in Shahar's house in Rosh Ha'ayin. On the line was a woman with an Arabic accent. "Are you Shahar?" she asked him, and he confirmed it hesitantly. "I found your name on the Internet. I have your cell phone."
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Salmond seeks Arabian knight (Times Online)
Not so long ago, Qatar consisted of “two camels at a crossroads”. It was Bedouin territory, not much more than sand and stones. Now, thanks to oil, it’s got a Ridley Scott skyline and as much Prada and Gucci as you can buy.
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Top Chef: New York Revealed, Meet the Cheftestants! (Gothamist)
The fifth season of Top Chef has wrapped up its not-so-secret production in New York City and is set to premiere with a "super-sized" episode on November 12th, Bravo announced today. Padma Lakshmi will once again join head judge Tom Colicchio ( who made news yesterda y with his forthcoming Tuesday night supper "club"). Gail Simmons from Food & Wine Magazine is also a judge, but perhaps ...
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Loud and Proud Mizrachi Voices (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
On the last night before her family would flee Libya in 1967, Gina Bublil Waldman recalls that she had to choose between taking her only warm sweater or a photo album with the words "Souvenir of Libya" on the cover.
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Tit-for-tat Kurds reverse Saddam's 'ethnic cleansing' (Middle East Times)
Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz recounts his story at his home in the northeastern town of Khanaqin on September 24, 2008. Aziz, 37, was just four years old when his family was evicted from Bawaplawi village, near the town of Khanaqin in 1975 and Arab settlers grabbed their home.
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Tit-for-tat Kurds reverse Saddam's 'ethnic cleansing' (AFP via Yahoo! News)
For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he is back with a vengeance.
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The Class (2007) (New York Times)
The lines between documentary and drama are often blurred, as in “The Class,” which has young Parisians playing fictional versions of themselves.
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Laurent Cantet's 'The Class': Learning to be the future of France (International Herald Tribune)
The young bodies crowding "The Class," an artful, intelligent movie, come in all sizes, shapes and colors.
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