For those with stomach for it, ‘Thirst’ delivers Aug 21, 2009
A little l amour fou, some Emile Zola, a lot of gore. At times, Thirst seems hellbent on proving Park can do it all, and without a sign of strain. (Boston Globe)
Review: Farce, gruesomeness dominate 'Thirst' Aug 1, 2009
I'll stick out my neck and say that Park Chan Wook's wildly gruesome "Thirst" is the most whacked-out version of an Emile Zola novel ever to reach the screen. The movie's source, "Thrse Raquin" (1867), is about an unhappily married young woman who plans a murder with her illicit lover; the movie focuses on a Korean priest who becomes a vampire, then takes up with a married woman who also becomes a vampire, and the two have a falling-out after many bloody killings. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Cannes: Lars von Trier and Jane Campion ... they're ba-a-ack! May 19, 2009
calls it "Emile Zola meets New Age vampirism," and I only know what he means because he goes on to explain that the plot is partly borrowed from Zola's "Th?r?se Raquin." Getting off one of the festival's best lines to date, of the AV Club writes that "'Thirst' moves like it's just remembered the parking meter is about to expire 10 blocks away and can't find anything but flip-flops to wear. New settings and characters are introduced so willy-nilly, and consecutive scenes have so little formal or... (Salon)
The Oscars still wobble on an axis of art and popularity Feb 22, 2009
They include Great Man films like "The Life of Emile Zola," "Gandhi," and "Amadeus," and stories of emotional and mental struggle like "Rain Man" and "A Beautiful Mind." They heal war wounds ("The Best Years of Our Lives," "The Deer Hunter," "Platoon,") and deal with America's racial issues ("Dances With Wolves," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Crash"). Taken out of their zeitgeist context, many of these movies have aged dreadfully, and to think of "Dances With Wolves" in the same breath as, say, "The... (Boston Globe)
'Scandalous' exhibit portrays French past Feb 17, 2009
Also on display is a rare original copy of the front-page article, written by Emile Zola, that exposed the Dreyfus Affair to the public. Thanks to the 1881 "Law on the Freedom of the Press" in France, the press and French publishing had been definitively liberated for the first time in almost a century, Silverman said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Bad science and politics go together Feb 11, 2009
It was supported by prominent people like, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, William Keith Kellogg, and "Margaret Sanger". The "interventions" preached and practised by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families (including the poor, mentally ill, blind, 'promiscuous women', homosexuals) and entire "racial" groups as "degenerate" or "unfit", the... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The revolutionary and the ruler Feb 8, 2009
Born in May 1928 in Argentina, Guevara studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, where his favourite writers were Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Jack London and Emile Zola. A bad asthmatic since childhood and an Argentine who incongruously never learnt to dance, the impulsive Guevara with his pale skin and dark, haunting eyes loved living on the edge and was readily attracted to danger. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
