Holiday Movies – Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar – Cinematic Soulmates – NYTimes.com.
One more excellent (but unusual for the two) collaboration between Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodovar. I’m quite curious to see how Cruz manages to pull off a role so different from her real-life presence…
Gerard DeGroot reviews books about the fall of communism – washingtonpost.com
Gerard DeGroot reviews books about the fall of communism – washingtonpost.com.
Good review of books coming out to commemorate 20 years of the Berlin Wall’s fall, all trying – in rather different ways – to pinpoint the correct characterization of what actors and events led to the fall of communism in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, [...]