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Petr (Pavel Liska), the title character of "The Country Teacher," is a pensive, bespectacled Czech in his 30s who impulsively leaves Prague to take a job teaching natural science in a rural village. Both his subject and the rustic environment play into the movie's contemplation of biological diversity as it applies to human behavior, especially sexuality.
IN THE KITCHEN, by Monica Ali. Scribner, 436 pages, $26.99
I suppose that for those of us who make some of our living from writing about fictional dystopias, rather than utopias, the hysterical reaction to the news that Dr Karim Nayernia and his team at Newcastle University claim to have “created” human sperm in the laboratory can only be a good thing.
From Pearl Jam and Weezer to Oasis and Beck, the rock stars of the '90s now sputter and coast on creative fumes. Not Wilco. Jeff Tweedy's band continues to...
“Russian Style,” a new coffee-table book published by Assouline, seeks to mothball — or at least subvert — stereotypes of Russia as a land of vodka, babushkas and the mafia.
Fictitious countdown of the final six weeks in the twelve-month tour of an army bomb squad in Baghdad five years back, The Hurt Locker seems on a limited sampling to have excited other commentators more than it excited me. It excited me a little.
Robert Kenner's documentary investigates the corporate takeover of America's food supply The American food industry is now controlled by a handful of large corporations with one goal above all else: making money. Robert Kenner's incisive, warning-shot documentary, 'Food, Inc.,' investigates the ways in which these corporations have changed our food system in recent years and the impact this ...
Did Michael Jackson really want to be plasticized? We break down the facts.
Adoration Atom Egoyan's 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the aftermath of tragedy. It's closer in form and tone to the Canadian auteur's early work (particularly his 1987 masterpiece ...
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