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...freedom, they married and had two children. He then vanished for eight years, returning to become the lawyer of choice for terrorists - or freedom fighters? - from Europe and the Middle East. ("Today's Palestinian," he says, "is yesterday's Algerian.") Some of these participants speak fondly onscreen of their advocate and their mutual ideology. Asked if he would defend Hitler, Vergès replies, "I would even defend Bush! Of course, first he'd have to admit his guilt...
...Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen at the Harvard Film Archive from May 4th through May 15th. The films complement “Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus,” the art exhibition currently showing at the Busch-Reisinger Museum until June 10th. Jacob Proctor, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History...
Michelle Pfeiffer, away from onscreen roles since 2002, returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled for sympathy: "Yes, she's a bigot, but she's also a victim of the era she grew up in. It all changed on her, and what was once perfectly acceptable behavior suddenly wasn't. I think that's sad." Whereas her character in Stardust, a witch bent on destroying...
...WWII. Call me a prude, but when a pretty Jewish girl is steeling herself to seduce an SS commandant, I don’t need to see her give a quickie to a fellow resistance member after waxing her pubic hair. The private parts Verhoeven willingly parades around onscreen belong to Carice van Houten, who plays Rachel Steinn, alias Ellis de Vries, a dazzling on-the-lam Jew recruited to spy for the resistance. An able temptress and a contemplative soul, she adopts a dour disposition as willingly as she strips for her assigned Nazi boytoy Ludwig Müntze...
Everyone saw Forest Whitaker win the Oscar for Best Actor, but few saw his performance onscreen. Now, at home, viewers can see what all the fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense...