Beyond the Multiplex

Posts on Friday, July 18, 2008

Batman vs. the lavender genius of crime!
I watched the great 10-hour Japanese antiwar film! Now it's your turn. Plus: Topiary genius, life after the tsunami, and a gay British crime lord.
Is torture an Olympic event?
After 33 years of abuse and imprisonment, one Tibetan monk says no to the Beijing Olympics -- and to the Dalai Lama's accommodation with tyranny.
"Elegy" for a topless bombshell
Penélope Cruz gets art-history naked and Ben Kingsley is diamond-brilliant in an overly pretty film adaptation of Philip Roth's "Dying Animal."
The art world's Pepsi Generation
"Beautiful Losers" chronicles the art rebels of the '90s, fueled by punk, skateboarding, graffiti and trash culture. Now brought to you by Nike!
Jesus died for somebody's sins ... but not hers
A dazzling, dizzying documentary captures rock pioneer Patti Smith during her comeback years, surrounded by death and life.

Steve Coogan on "Hamlet 2"

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