Film
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October 8, 2019 |
The film ends where it all begins: like a fable that devours its own tail in order to explain how we always return to our origins. Using this age-old though useful device, Pedro Almodóvar has achieve... -
June 24, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P... -
June 22, 2016 |
Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? A new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals—and at her complicated life.... -
February 24, 2016 |
Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul Nominated for a 2016 Best Foreign Language Oscar, Hungary’s Son of Saul has been called “the film to beat.” Here in her review essay... -
December 2, 2015 |
As a longtime practitioner of the art of fiction writing and a committed reader of the works of others, I have been thinking a great deal about the impact of the proliferating film/TV industry on the... -
January 23, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews This week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s fort... -
December 22, 2014 |
in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo. A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-languag... -
August 8, 2014 |News, Reviews, and Interviews Since 2011, fierce Taliban rule in Pakistan has silenced traditional Pashtun poets. Now, migrating from the region, a group of about 50 poets are defying...
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June 13, 2014 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews A new film, “Write Down, I Am an Arab,” will tell the story behind Mahmoud Darwish’s greatest love affair, with a Jewish woman he fell... -
May 31, 2013 |From Pablo Neruda’s exhumation to Cairo’s first ever translation slam, this week’s lit links have it all! News, Reviews, and Interviews The New Yorker recently asked world-fa...
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April 24, 2013 |
The Man from Snowy River (1982, Australia) Director: George Miller; Screenplay: Cul Cullen, John Dixon; Poem: Banjo Patterson (same title) Jim Craig is eighteen when his father dies, and to...
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