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Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent in a scene in Sarah Polley's "Away From Her."
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'Away From Her': The mysteries of a long marriage
By A.O. SCOTT
The first feature written and directed by Sarah Polley, a Canadian actress, the film is by turns sharp and somber, as it looks at a woman with Alzheimer's, played by Julie Christie, and the repercussions on her husband (Gordon Pinsent) and their marriage.
Julie Christie: The return of a reluctant actress
- Movie Minutes: "Away from Her"
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Studio plans sequel to 'Wall Street'
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
20th Century Fox sealed a deal to revive Gordon Gekko, the suspender-loving financial prowler who made grabbing seem good in Oliver Stone's 1987 film.
Strange encounters between new and old worlds
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
The exhibition "Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850" on view at the National Portrait Gallery until June 17, is an unusual show that deals less with art than with the mutual perceptions and misperceptions of humans who were, literally, worlds apart.
Tyler Brûlé: Dreaming of stations that entice commuters
By TYLER BRÛLÉ
Tyler Brûlé writes that while he is all for preserving buildings that were once temples to Europe's modern transport networks, he's also for creating transport terminals that get more people out of the air and onto rails by buildling elegant and efficient structures.
12th century paintings of Buddha found in Nepal
AP
A mural with 55 panels depicting the story of Buddha's life was uncovered in March.
U.S. author heckled by people denying Armenian genocide
By JAMES BARRON
A man in the audience at a bookstore in New York was arrested after he and several other people disrupted the reading by Margaret Ajemian Ahnert by shouting and passing out leaflets denying that the genocide occurred.
A lesson in mob rule on the Web
By BRAD STONE
Sophisticated Internet users have banded together to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
Zeng Fanzhi: Amid change, the art of isolation
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
The ideological changes in China have clearly influenced Zeng Fanzhi, but his work remains personal and emotional.
Slide Show: The introspective art of Zeng Fanzhi
The postman who delivered a palace
By MARY BLUME
Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval, a postman in 19th-century France, constructed a Palais Idéal stone by stone while going about his rounds. By his count it took more than 9,000 days or 65,000 hours to build and it still brings about 100,000 visitors a year to Hauterives north of Valence.
'Spider-Man 3': Peter Parker's bad-boy phase
WESLEY MORRIS / The Boston Globe
Under the playful yet perceptive direction of Sam Raimi, "Spider-Man 3" is an intricately plotted saga which takes our hero from adolescence to adulthood as he is invaded by a substance that introduces him to the thrills of being bad. It strikes an exquisite balance between pop and woe, drama and whooshing adventure.
Michael Chabon: Reclaiming a frigid island for the 'chosen frozen'
By PATRICIA COHEN
In this fourth novel, "The Yiddish Policeman's Union," Michael Chabon takes a historical footnote, a pie-in-the-sky proposal to open up the Alaska Territory in 1940 to European Jews marked for extermination, and asks: What if?
Will campus killings shake U.S. infatuation with violent films?
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Lionsgate, a clearinghouse for some of the entertainment industry's most graphically violent fare, still plans to release on June 8 its "Hostel: Part II," about the torture killing of college students. But the film is emerging as a test of continued audience enthusiasm for such onscreen brutality.
Book Review: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
By JANET MASLIN
Crystal Zevon's "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," is a no-holds-barred oral history that captures the lovable but wildly aberrant personality of Warren Zevon, draws upon a diverse cast of characters and peers into the heart of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter community.
Visiting Björk's restless, impulsive, multicultural universe
In Berlin, art among the ruins
Testosterone rules (at the box office)
Book Review: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Handel's 'Hallelujah' chorus: A malice toward Judiasm?
The subtle Desiderio: Breathing life into cool marble
Armenia's artistic bridge from East to West
Tunick hopes to make nude photo shoot in Mexico City his biggest
Ex-CIA chief, in book, assails Cheney on Iraq
Movies: Peering into the future, but still stumbling about in 'Next'
An Israeli town fights rockets with
rock 'n' roll
Tyler Brûlé on trade shows: A glance behind all that glitter
Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe: The aristocrat and the photographer
'Where Elephants Weep': A Cambodian opera for modern times
Jack Valenti, confidant of presidents and stars, dies at 85
Film review: In 'Jindabyne,' searching for clarity amid the mess of everyday life
Talk to the plant: Prince Charles's organic revolution
Book Review: Flight
For Disney and Pixar, wonder comes at a high cost
Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg: A TV producers' palace in the making
Blair's trial over Iraq now playing in London
Book Review: Nixon and Kissinger
Cloud Gate's Lin says French ballerina Guillem is a hard worker
'Rose Tattoo' and 'Lady from Dubuque': Lesser-known American classics make a study in contrasts
David Halberstam, Pulitzer-winning journalist, dies in crash
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