Austrian director Michael Haneke’s drama The White Ribbon has nabbed the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The black-and-white film captured the Palme d’Or. Haneke’s exquisitely shot movie delves into themes of guilt, punishment and trust among the denizens of a small German town just before the First World War starts.
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The Defining Notion Of Book Prize Shortlists
Experience also teaches that, in trying to assess the likely outcome of any debate about shortlists, it always makes most sense to look not so much at the books in contention as the judges on the panel. Will they favour more or different? Are they pro-hedgehog or pro-fox? Such is the contemporary power of some book prizes, far more persuasive than almost any amount of review coverage, that any winner becomes automatically a more and a hedgehog, the proud possessor of “one big thing”.
Looking Inside The School Of American Ballet
“Dancing is made to appear as something not just of repetition and display but of internal contrasts and musical intricacy. Thanks to the teaching of Jock Soto (himself an extraordinarily able partner from his earliest days with City Ballet in the 1980s), both girls and boys are learning aspects of partnering that their predecessors learned only in their professional careers.”
Where Are The Women Actresses? On Broadway, Of Course
“The current number and quality of roles for actresses on the New York stage is especially noticeable at a time when Hollywood is more obsessed than ever with youth and is providing so few meaningful parts for women, no matter what their age.”
The Man Who Found A Gainsborough On eBay
“Philip Mould’s discoveries come, he thinks, not only from his ‘deep love for the paintings’, but from his willingness to call on the expertise of historians who know more about a subject than he does, and from his interest in the organic life of a work.”
Teaching Of Latin Is Up. Why?
“It helps create curious, intellectually rigorous kids with a rich interior world, people who have the tools to see our world as it really is because they have encountered and imaginatively experienced another that is so like, and so very unlike, our own.”