While making ”In Desert and Wilderness,” director Gavin Hood faced almost as many pitfalls as the movie’s put-upon protagonists. In the 2001 film, set in the 19th century, a teen-age Polish boy and a young English girl escape fanatic Arabic kidnappers and begin a dangerous trek across the Sudan, battling malaria, thirst and wild animals […]
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Renowned director pleased to bring Oscar-worthy, metro-shot film to festival Halifax’s hopes for an Academy Award were dashed when The Shipping News failed to make a critical impact this year, but we’ve got another good shot with acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland’s new film, Julie Walking Home. Australian actress Miranda Otto gives a truly Oscar-worthy performance
Olga Torkarczuk claims her place among the greats of Polish letters with House of Day, House of Night House of Day, House of Night (Writings from an Unbound Europe) What other nation can boast two living Nobel laureates – Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz – and, in the late Zbigniew Herbert, a poet at least
Lewis Nkosi, who comes across as a mild, urbane and gently humorous world citizen, says he is astonished at how at home he feels in Durban, and attributes this to the notion of “home as language”. After 42 years of living abroad he is sometimes mistaken for an American in his home town, where he
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Examples of the magnificent work of Pablo Picasso and other painters who were active in Paris in the early 20th century are showcased in an exhibition at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto. Picasso and The School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York includes 72 works
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