Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Ever wished you’d never picked up the phone? Just let it ring off and go back to bed none the wiser and let the...
The current media blow-up over the Roman Polanski case has exposed our culture's disturbing whitewashing of the personal characters of creative people, as well as served up an entirely bizarre idea...
Roman Polanski’s recent arrest at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland has ignited a firestorm of reactions. No one denies that he drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977, or that he has...
Compared to Lang Lang and Yundi Li, it took Piotr Anderszewski a long time to achieve a reputation as a top world class pianist. The Polish pianist was first recognized globally after he received the...
Popular culture in India depicts Punjabi girls as pretty and exuberant. Notwithstanding the perils of any generalization and the hyperbole of cinematic rendition, it is not far from the truth....
There has been one successful remake of an Alan Clarke film, Gus Van Sant’s 2003 film “Elephant.” Transporting the sectarian killings of Northern Ireland to high-school slayings in America was...
Women just have to Take care of their needs— She mends her arresting armor, She sculpts her striking sheath, She fine-tunes her fetching frame. She cannot rely on a man for everything. Men exhibit...
The previous installment of the Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) retrospective discusses "Lolita." After “Eyes Wide Shut” there would never be another Stanley Kubrick film. There would be no more...
Life at the pram-face is tough for 15-year-old Mia. She’s no Wallace and certainly no Farrow but another damaged Essex girl living in the shadow of the A13. Kicked out of school, isolated from her...
“District 9” proves that nothing unites the human race better than a good old-fashioned alien invasion. We forget our own racial hatred for two minutes to gang up on slimy spacemen, exploit their...
