The history of censorship goes back to ancient Greece. Far from being the exclusive province of ham fisted dictators like the Nazis and the communists, even the United States has engaged in censorship for reasons other than reasons of profanity or sexual explicitness.Amazingly enough an ancient Greek play Aristophanes’s “Lysistrata,” written in 411 BC, [...]
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Yuri Norshteyn is an animated film producer from Russia, who produced a great deal of work back when Russia was still the hub of the USSR. He was born in 1941 to Jewish parents who were fleeing deeper into the Soviet Union to escape advancing Nazi armies. When viewing Norshteyn’s films, one notes a fundamental [...]
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Iranian films are getting well deserved respect abroad. One critically acclaimed film is Baran, a 2001 film about a Kurdish worker who falls in love with an Afghan girl. The film reveals the ethnic divisions in Iranian society between different ethnic groups, as well as the tension between illegal foreign workers and the government. [...]
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Globe Tribune.Info is pleased to present the 1996 Cuban film, Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar). IMDb summarises the plot as follows. “Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a [...]
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A North Korean film from 1985 has been posted on You Tube with a plot that is described as follows. “In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that [...]
A study of nine month old infants has established among them a reference for the bold colours of Picasso rather than the softer shades of Claude Monet, according to Miller McCune magazine. Babies who started off looking at Picasso returned to it after being shown Monet and those shown Monet preferred Picasso when [...]
I spent a good part of the day in Manhattan on business. Coming from Brooklyn, it feels like I’m in another country. The jarring contrast of one borough with another reminds me of going from west to east Berlin back in the 70′s. I used to like going to Manhattan to look for books and [...]
As a child, I was fascinated by Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, by E.B. White. White used to write his wife letters in the voice of their pet dachshund, and study the species he wrote about. He also wrote essays, most famously a book about New York City, directed at an adult audience.
If you thought that every stroke of an artist’s work was by his own hand, you might be in for a rude surprise. Some artists supervise a crew of workers under their supervision to execute their designs. One artist mentioned in the Wall Street Journal even has workers in India produce his paintings under long [...]
A new biography has come out of Joseph Brodsky, the dissident poet from the former USSR who won the 1987 Nobel Prize for Literature..The New Yorker paints a picture of Brodsky’s life. Even when Stalinism was winding down, it was harsh to a degree that westerners would find hard to imagine.
