I don't want to spend a lot of time kicking and screaming over Dan Kois' May 1 New York Times Magazine "Riff" entitled "Reaching for Culture That Remains Stubbornly Above…
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From left: Manchia Diawara, Souleymane Cisse, Martin Scorsese, myself. Photo by Getty Images. The April 29 Tribeca Talks: Directors' Series event with Malian director Souleymane Cissé and Martin Scorsese was…
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With a soft palpitation the small screen had fizzed into life—and there it was, the Royal Wedding, the crowd-ribbed Mall, the sun, and the horses getting people to the…
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I see that many of my fellow critics are taking Disney's Prom very seriously indeed, examining its entrails for evidence concerning the state of gender roles and stereotyping and that…
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...as Kim Jong-Il so memorably put it in Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, 2004), "Do you have any idea how fucking bussy I am?"
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