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The skull beneath the skin.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... ROBIN WOOD The anxiety we carry within us, all our broken dreams, the inexplicable cruelty, the fear of death, the painful insight into our earthly condition, have worn out our hope of a divine salvation. The cries of our faith and doubt against the darkness and the silence are terrible...

National Reconciliation and its performative limitations: John Boorman's in My Country and Fanta Regina Nacro's Night of Truth.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... Introduction: Reconciliation--A Very Different Final Solution After living under an apartheid government since 1948, on May 10, 1994, South Africa witnessed the presidential inauguration of political prisoner and human rights activist Nelson Mandela, officially ending an era...

Toronto workers' art in Global Hollywood.(Toronto, Canada)
March 22, 2009... Off camera group art show at Filmport Studios, 225 Commissioners St., Toronto October 3-18 The pieces in the show are viewable at: offcameraatfilmport2008.blogspot.com Hollywood has long had an awkward relationship to art. Often considered more a communication technology than a fine art,...

Kiarostami's life lessons: how art flourishes where it would suffer, and struggles where it should thrive.(Abbas Kiarostami)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2009... I presented an earlier version of the following essay in 2000, shortly after I had seen Taste of Cherries and American Beauty each for the first time. As the people running this country continue to flirt with the possibility of a war with Iran, it strikes me that many of the arguments herein...

Paul Newman (1925-2008).(In memoriam)
March 22, 2009... Paul Newman began his film career in the mid-fifties, a period of transition within the Hollywood cinema. Although in the rebel mould of Marlon Brando and James Dean who also evidenced the changes taking place both within the industry and beyond in the culture at large, Newman developed his...