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/ 9 September 2005
Two exhibitions of South Africa’s greatest documentary photographer, David Goldblatt’s photographs show his different sides, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 September 2005
”You have the power of X!” That’s the message to the youth in the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) new advertising campaign in the run-up to the local-government elections. The campaign is perhaps the poppiest yet to be run by the IEC, but it also takes its tone from the idea of ”ordinary people speaking to ordinary people” more than previously.
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/ 2 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Gregg Araki’s new film <i>Mysterious Skin</i> may lack the sense of nihilism often present in his earlier films, but it’s about youthful sexuality and abuse and how different people deal with such things, writes Shaun de Waal.
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Between the moments of violence and the over-played caricatures there is the occasional laugh in Adam Sandler’s new movie The Longest Yard, writes Shaun de Waal.
Two new South African novels, one by a veteran and another by a newcomer, find magic in mining the distant past, writes Shaun de Waal.
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grand‒father by Gao Xingjian (Harper Perennial) In the title story, the author, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, longs for his childhood village, now asphalted over, and his grandfather, who made fishing rods of bamboo. It is one of six stories written between 1989 and 1996, […]
THRILLER OF THE WEEK: The actors in Mindhunters are not quite the set of pulchritudinous young things we have become accustomed to, writes Shaun de Waal.
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:
In My Country, based on Antjie Krog’s novel on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, falls short of the intense inwardness and self-scrutiny of Krog’s book, writes Shaun de Waal.
VILLA AT 90 edited by Karel Nel, Elizabeth Burroughs, Amalie von Maltitz (Jonathan Ball/Shelf) WILLEM BOSHOFF by Ivan Vladislavic (David Krut Taxi) Two sculptors who couldn’t be more different: Eduardo Villa and Willem Boshoff. Yet, reading a book on each, looking at them together, casts fascinating light both ways. Villa is an adoptive South African, […]
It’s that time of year when there’s nothing better than to curl up somewhere warm with a book … Here is the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s handy guide to new books on the shelves this winter.