Archive for the ‘arts’ Category

Film: Where is Osama bin Laden?

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Nicole showed some of this some weeks ago as it was going through the film festival circuit, but it’s opening wide this weekend. Morgan Spurlock, the genius who brought you “Super Size Me,” now brings us “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?”, a side-splitting quest to hunt ...

Music Review: Shahram & Hafez Nazeri The Passion Of Rumi

Monday, January 28th, 2008

What's amazing is that there has actually been any sort of connection established that establishes even the tiniest beachhead of understanding amidst all this mutual recrimination. In the last few years there has been a growing fascination among people in the West for the poetry of the Persian Sufi mystic ...

EU lawmakers fume over erotic YouTube clip - Online World

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr said the shots in the clip — drawn from award-winning films such as "Amelie" and "Bad Education" — highlighted Europe's tradition of rich cinema. Selmayr said Tuesday that he had not received any complaints about the video, which was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in ...