At this point, some 30 years into M. Night Shyamalan’s career, it’s easy to feel some grudging affection for his movies, even if you’ve historically hated or felt indifferently toward them. They tend to be short. Occasionally the twists are clever. He favors slow-burning suspense over grisliness. He’s a director who cares about what he gives an audience, even if that means he sometimes trips himself up in his eagerness to please. Read More...
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April 20, 1925 12:00 AM GMT-5
Elections to the Moscow Soviet† resulted in the return of 2,554 Communists and 1,308 members of other parties. This showed a decrease in the Communists’ strength from 87.7% to 66%. More than 900 women were elected. The Westinghouse Airbrake Co.’s plant at Yaroslave was put up for auction to defray a Government rent claim of $125,000. There were no bidders, so the Government took the factory over for operation. Read More...
You might describe Mary Jirmanus Saba’s first feature film, A Feeling Greater Than Love, as the perfect movie to spur discussion as hundreds of thousands took to the streets across Lebanon in the fall of 2019 to demand political change in the face of economic crisis. And the movie—an essayistic film that highlights the role of women’s political labor and organizing emanating from factories in Lebanon in the 1970s, in parallel with events from the recent past—did just that, in small sessions run by community groups. Read More...
