Date posted: May 15, 2005
Time flies, or so it is said. But does it? And if it does, does it fly like a plane or like a bird or a bee perhaps? This week I went to see the fourth and final episode of the Proust cycle by Guy Cassiers and the RO Theater.
Date posted: May 1, 2005
In 2004 it was 100 years ago that Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam. It had escaped city officials and so it is that the retrospective currently at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and previously at the BA-CA Kunstforum in Vienna is now presented as marking the end of the centenary of his birth. Compared with the retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1995 it is a rather poor, pared down overview.
Holland Animation Film festival 2008
As with every edition of the Holland Animation Film festival there were too many films. And also as with every edition the films ranged from hilarious, touching and stunning to boring, tedious and outright dreadful.
I'm a cyborg is yet another highly intelligent movie by Park Chan-wook. It's also a visual treat and in its own special way profoundly moving.
Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.
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