Amelia
Running time 111 minutes
Written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan
Directed by Mira Nair
Starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Cherry Jones
When Amelia Earhart, the world’s most famous aviatrix, disappeared in midair on July 2, 1937, somewhere over the Pacific between New Guinea and a Howland Island refueling station, Read More
On a recent Tuesday evening, Mahmood Mamdani, a bookishly handsome and relentlessly incendiary political theorist, spoke at a forum on the subject of academic freedom held at Columbia University, where he teaches.
Not long ago, in the pages of Foreign Affairs, he wrote that “the neoconservatives are a twin of al Qaeda”-the kind of rhetorical Read More
Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair , from a screenplay by Mathew Faulk, Mark Skeet and Julian Fellowes, based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), contrives to become a less than absorbing adaptation of Thackeray’s sprawling but sharp-witted classic. Ms. Nair-she of the tumultuous India-based canvases of Salaam Bombay (1988) and Monsoon Wedding (2001)-has expanded Read More
Reese Witherspoon is as modishly contemporary as a Palm Pilot with a Duracell battery. Watching her play scheming, flirtatious 19th-century golddigger Becky Sharp in the latest of a long line of movie adaptations (four that I know about) of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic novel Vanity Fair is so disconcerting that I kept staring at the Read More
