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/ 7 November 2003
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: If you were thinking the third Matrix movie would offer resolutions of all the loose threads left hanging in the second movie, The Matrix Reloaded, you will be disappointed. This one leaves almost as much dangling as did its immediate predecessor, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 24 October 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK: </b>Holes is not quite your usual teen fare. It isn’t a realistic tale with moral lessons to teach on the subjects of drugs or sex; nor is it the kind of out-and-out fantasy that is also huge in that market. It’s an odd combination of the two, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 24 October 2003
Peter Rorvik, director of the Durban International Film Festival, and Nashen Moodley, manager of the festival, respond to some questions from Shaun de Waal about the festival.
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/ 17 October 2003
The distorted reflections of JM Coetzee generated since he won the Nobel Prize say more about the media than about him, argues Shaun de Waal.
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/ 17 October 2003
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> As with many mainstream movies stealing a bit of style from the independents (but no substance), <i>View from the Top</i> is going as quirky, with a light, slightly absurdist tone, and a look to match. Luckily, opening at the same time as <i>View from the Top</i> is <i>Secretary</i>, which acts as something of a corrective to its fake quirkiness.
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/ 14 October 2003
Because of some useless shilly-shallying in the halls of power, we are once again looking back on the first week of the Rugby World Cup wondering what might have been. The problem is not the rugby being played, it’s the lack of thought put into the tournament by the administrators.
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/ 10 October 2003
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Hollywood Homicide is intensely self-regarding, as the title hints. It is as much of an incestuous Los Angeles movie as, say, Steven Soderbergh’s essay on the movie industry, Full Frontal, or David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, though it, being mainstream big-budget ”product”, of course tries to hide that fact, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 10 October 2003
The annual Noma Award for African Literature, the leading award given to works from this continent, has been won by Elinor Sisulu for her biography of Walter and Albertina Sisulu. She will receive prize money of US 000. The award is sponsored by the Japanese company Kodansha.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Of all the many movies this film critic sees in a year, there are usually only two or three he has any desire to see again. This year, so far, only two: <i>Far from Heaven</i> and, now, <i>Identity</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 26 September 2003
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life </i>might as well be written, directed, produced and acted by a computer. It’s slick, fast, exciting in a mindless sort of way, reminiscent of a thousand other action-adventure movies, more-or-less enjoyable and completely forgettable, writes Shaun de Waal.