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/ 11 January 2002
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Monsoon Wedding</i> is a tender but trenchant portrait of an extended Indian family under the pressure of an impending nuptial event, writes Shaun de Waal.
There was a danger that quality could be sacrificed at the altar of speed and quantity as South Africa tried to speed up its land restitution process, National Land Commissioner Dr Wallace Mgoqi said on Wednesday.
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/ 27 December 2001
In a way, Herman Charles Bosman is the Elvis of South African literature, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 19 December 2001
<b>REVIEW:</b> Jonathan Franzen’s <i>The Corrections</i> (Fourth Estate)
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/ 26 November 2001
The soundtrack for Patrice Chéreau’s film <i>Intimacy</i> harks back to the long-time interests of Hanif Kureishi, upon whose short story the movie is based. Kureishi’s first novel, <i>The Buddha of Suburbia</i>, was obsessed with David Bowie in his glam-rock years and Bowie pops up on the <i>Intimacy</i> soundtrack.
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/ 9 November 2001
Like the face of Greta Garbo, the Marquis de Sade increasingly appears to be a screen on to which we can project our own fears and desires. Whatever the historical facts of the misdemeanours of the "Divine Marquis" who gave his name to the vice of sadism, he has become a figure who accommodates a variety of readings.
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/ 9 November 2001
The importance of sex in the movies would be impossible to overstate. So many plots have turned on it; it has supplied so much motivation to so many characters, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 November 2001
<b>Movie of the week:</b> I found <i>Panic</i> entertaining though unsettling, and thought at first it might be a rather slight piece, but it stayed with me, and its images kept resonating in my head, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 1 November 2001
oë Wicomb, the South African writer now resident in Scotland, won the 2001 M-Net Book Prize in the English category (worth R50 000) for her novel <i>David’s Story</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 29 October 2001
Ten New Songs (Columbia) is Leonard Cohen’s first collection of new material in nine years; the man is not garrulous. And he seems to have slowed down to a crawl — the result of all that Zen meditation? This is one for very late at night, or you may become impatient.