Fleeing Urban Anomie for Elusive Country Comforts. Atsushi Funahashi's moody wisp of a film paints a bleak neo-realist vision of the Lower East Side and its mating rituals.
By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Movies]
Driving Men, and Women, Crazy. Joseph Gai Ramaka's loony restaging of Bizet's "Carmen" is enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.
By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Movies]

With education, at the end of oppression,
but especially with the privilege to choose or not to make these small
things, seemingly so banal, like carrying nail varnish and eye shadow in
public. There will be probably many small girls who will read their mother's copy of
Roz Magazine
[Nadia chez les Internautes]
Fashion in a Time of Famine: Elle's fashion magazine for Afghani Women
[Islam Online]
At a Festival, Documentaries as History. Many of the most compelling films at this year's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, formerly the DoubleTake Festival, dealt with historical events.
By Stephen Kinzer. [New York Times: Arts]