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Arts & Entertainment

Dutch Light

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published April 8, 2004

TDir. Maarten de Kroon here really is something especially beautiful about the Netherlands. The windmills, the waterways, the ever-present, lolling, pregnant clouds. To those given to melancholia it all...

Cut ’em down to size

Published April 8, 2004
The Rock takes a walk in a sylvan revenge fantasy.

Toeing the race line

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published April 8, 2004

Let's talk about race." It is difficult to imagine an invitation that would be more likely to get turned down in most cases. Along with its partners ethnicity, gender, religion and sexual orientation,...

Atlas, All the Weight in the World

by Katrina Wilber
Published April 8, 2004

IDir. Thanos Anastopoulos f Atlas thought he had a tough time holding up the world, he should have tried holding an entire country's Olympic dreams on his shoulders instead. First-time director Thanos...

Cut deep down the middle

by Tom Horgen
Published April 8, 2004

The Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival pushes into its second week today. The festival celebrates its halfway point tonight with a screening of the Swedish documentary "Presence" at 7:30...

The Olive Harvest

by Greg Corradini
Published April 8, 2004

SDir. Hanna Elias et amidst the brutal Israeli and Palestinian conflict, "The Olive Harvest" is a film struggling to be a dramatic social critique. Palestinian political prisoner Mazen (Mazen Saade) returns...

Presence

by Tom Horgen
Published April 8, 2004

WDir. Jan Troell hen you live and die by the click of a camera, the moment is everything. "That's why we take pictures - we want to look at time." So says Georg Oddner, the renowned Swedish photographer...

Elina: As if I Wasn’t There

by Niels Strandskov
Published April 8, 2004

TDir. Klaus Härö hose Finns can be pretty hard-headed. The same stubbornness that served Minnesota well in the battles to organize the Range leads to trouble for the title character in "Elina:...

Yoshino’s Barber Shop

by Tom Horgen
Published April 1, 2004

UDir. Ogigami Naoko topia has its costs. And they're often not too pleasant. In "Yoshino's Barber Shop," a small Japanese town maintains its apparently idyllic routine by abiding strictly to tradition....

Life’s a ball

by Greg Corradini
Published April 1, 2004
Theatre de la Jeune Lune dances its way around serious issues.

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