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/ 29 October 2001
Achmat Dangor, whose new novel has just come out, speaks to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 26 October 2001
Big-budget movie of the week: Forget the advance publicity, which makes America’s Sweethearts look rather ordinary, and go and enjoy the spectacle of Hollywood laughing at itself, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 October 2001
Cape Town | Tuesday HAVING fought publicly and stridently for over a week, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon and his deputy Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Tuesday opted to meet privately in Cape Town in a bid to save their alliance. Even their lieutenants remained tight-lipped, with one telling Sapa: “We don’t want the media camping […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! is a musical of a kind you’ve never quite seen before. Though set in Paris in 1899, it makes use of a plethora of late-20th-century songs, reworked and often collaged into medleys. The combination of these with the film’s delirious, luxuriant visuals add up to an experience that leaves one somewhat stunned.
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/ 19 October 2001
Not quite the movie of the week: Nicolas Cage as Captain Corelli pretty much sinks what is otherwise a fairly watchable movie, and undoes the hard work of the script and the direction, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 12 October 2001
<b>Thriller of the week:</b> <i>15 Minutes</i> is a tense, well-made thriller that never flags or falters and doesn’t sacrifice realism on the altar of effect, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 12 October 2001
<b>Musical of the week:</b> <i>Moulin Rouge!</i> is entertainment of the most dazzling variety, a whirlwind collage of music and movement to which, like an out-of-control acid (or absinthe) trip, one simply has to succumb, writes Shaun de Waal.
Not the movie of the week: Given the Spielbergian sentimentality, the movie should perhaps have been called Artificial Emotion instead, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 28 September 2001
<b>Thai movie of the week:</b> <i>The Iron Ladies</i> doesn’t always get this delicate balance between humour and empathy right, but overall it works well enough, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 21 September 2001
Argentinian-born film producer Fernando Sulichin will be in Durban during the city’s International Film Festival to conduct several workshops and to introduce the South African prèmiere of the Sulichin-produced <i>Bully</i>, the new film by Larry Clark — a frank and explicit portrait of the violent, nihilistic youth of the United States, based on a real-life murder in Florida.