Despite the controversial jokes this man can occasionally make, despite his films not appealing to every taste, he is still an established master of filmmaking. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia has scored EFA’s top prize. Lars von Trier’s drama about the end of the world was named best film this Sunday. The Danish director’s wife Bente [...]
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December 4, 2011
November 23, 2011
Swiss photographer digs into pop king’s childhood
Good photography is like archeology, believes Henry Leutwyler – the photographer behind the unusual exhibition of Michael Jackson’s personal items and suits that have just gone on show in Moscow. Leutwyler went to Michael Jackson’s estate – the legendary Neverland – to fulfill a magazine assignment: he had to photograph the iconic white glove. To [...]
November 21, 2011
King’s College London to establish dedicated Russia Institute in 2013
A new institute for the study of contemporary Russia is to be established at a London university, the latest in a network of institutes at King’s College London devoted to mapping the rise of emerging powers. The university’s Russia Institute, due to open in 2013, joins an India Institute which opened in September and institutes [...]
October 3, 2011
French history erased in new wave of revisionism
Parents and teachers across France are up in arms over new textbooks which carry accounts of French history revised to avoid insulting ethnic minority pupils. They say common sense has been sacrificed to political correctness in French schoolsю Natives of France now fear their identity will soon disappear along with their history. A modern French [...]