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...particularly liked the Coen Brothers piece about an American tourist (Steve Buscemi), waiting for a Metro train, who does not heed his guidebook's advice (don't make eye contact with strangers) with comic-violent results, Wes Craven's work about a pair of bickering British tourists visiting Oscar Wilde's grave site in the Père-Lachaise cemetery with romantically restorative results, and Tom Twyker's take on a faltering love affair between a pair of young people, one of whom is blind, yet is also a brave and wily navigator of the sighted world. There's even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exquisite Films of Paris | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...Benedict reiterated his warning against "mistaken mixing of Church and politics, of faith and politics," insisting the Church's mission was the "education of personal and social virtues," not direct intervention in the political sphere. And while he spoke positively of the push for sainthood for progressive Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed in 1980 while celebrating Mass, Benedict complained that Romero's cause had been hijacked by supporters of liberation theology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benedict and Brazil's Catholic Leftists | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

HELEN MIRREN, Oscar-winning star of The Queen, would rather break bread with Nic Cage than dine (by invitation) with the Queen of England. What could be more important than royalty? asks hipster travel guide JAUNTED, rhetorically. South Dakota! That's where Mirren is filming a National Treasure sequel. SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 21, 2007 | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

Spain in the war-torn '40s is the setting for this anti-Franco, pro-magic fairy tale. If you were wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: May 21, 2007 | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

When Before Sunset, the romance she co-wrote, snagged an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2004, the French actress acquired a taste for the other side of filmmaking. First up is a comedy about a bickering couple's European vacation, starring Delpy (above right) and Adam Goldberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Downtime: May 14, 2007 | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

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