Shareeka epps biography of mahatma

  • The movie presents, with beatific admiration and loving care, the life and struggles of peace activist and anti-colonialist Mahatma (Mohandas).
  • Director Ryan Fleck's independent drama concerns a crack-addicted junior-high teacher who forms a bond with an inquisitive student (Shareeka.
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    Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically. Ratings range from zero to four stars.

    “All the King’s Men”

    POLITICAL DRAMA|** 1/2|PG-13|In Steven Zaillian’s version of Robert Penn Warren’s political classic, Sean Penn finally locates the pol from Mason City standing in front of a hayseed audience drawn by the barbecue. Only the spark of connection between the actor and the indelible Willie Stark feels too long coming to make “All the King’s Men” necessary viewing. Jude Law, Mark Ruffalo and Kate Winslet as narrator Jack Burden and his childhood friends don’t cure the film’s odd malaise. Indeed the dance between their gentile South and Stark’s rural ways zaps the film of its resonant power. Penn has a sharp moment when he recognizes he’s been played as a sap. But it’s Patricia Clarkson as Sadie Burke who burns truest. She’s not onscreen near enough. (Lisa K

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    Nominees and Wannabes: Eight 2006 DVDs That Received - or Just Missed - Oscar's Attention

    I consider myself an Academy Awards completist: Prior to the annual Oscar tv-sändning, I want to see as many of the nominated films as inom can. But I'm also a lazy completist - I want to see these movies so long as inom don't have to drive really far. (This fryst vatten why, to my disappointment and discredit, I'll be watching Sunday's telecast without having viewed Little Children, Venus, and The Good German.)

    Thank goodness, then, for DVD.

    For those of you who missed their local appearances at the cineplex, you can rent a whole slew of this year's nominated movies: Babel, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, United 93, The Devil Wears Prada, An Inconvenient Truth, Cars, Monster House, The Black Dahlia, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Marie Antoinette, Flags of Our Fathers, Poseidon, Superman Returns, and Click. (With apologies to fellow Oscar comp

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    What makes a great socially conscious movie?

    Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” and Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi”–both coming out in restored two-disc editions–are films by deeply idealistic and progressive directors and writers who want to inspire as well as entertain. Of the two, “Gandhi” is the more immediately impressive: a beautifully produced, sumptuously colorful, excitingly staged period epic with an all-star cast, headed by Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, backed by Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, John Mills, Saeed Jaffrey, Om Puri and playwright Athol Fugard. The movie presents, with beatific admiration and loving care, the life and struggles of peace activist and anti-colonialist Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi.

    “Bicycle Thieves”–known in America more often as “The Bicycle Thief”–is also an Oscar winner. (It took a 1948 special foreign language film award). By com

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