A Lost Culture, Drenched in Blood and Beauty
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The Guggenheim Museum offers a serpentine, shock-inducing exhibit of all walks and phases of Aztec life.
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They're culture-rich and scenically stunning, but very, very pricey.
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In this conservative kingdom's most conservative city, a sheen of modernity bumps against deep tradition.
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Saawariya starts off superbly, showcasing the ethereal texture of its strain. Sadly, somewhere towards the end it loses some of its steam. In entirety, however, the soundtrack is a superior product.
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Sometimes learning about the culture and traditions of another country involves a verbal slap on the wrist.
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Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of âLive and Become.â
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From Los Angeles, a town of polyglot pleasures, a band that pays tribute to lost Cambodian pop.
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Bloody and brutal, the Aztecs produced powerful art. The Guggenheim offers the biggest survey ever
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"Legong: Dance of the Virgins" is a delirious blend of sentimental fiction and ethnological fact. Also, Orson Welles's "It's All True" and "Spider-Man 2."
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ÂTesoros/Treasures/Tesouros,Â now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a rich cultural collision for anyone interested in a big dose of worldliness.
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In a foreign land, where once the earth ran red with British blood, they rode as if for death or glory.
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âIn the Shadow of the Moonâ is a morale booster. The power of its archival images hasnât diminished with familiarity.
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Perfect for a culture obsessed with its innards, a new documentary dispenses with all the plot nonsense of CSI and House. One high-def shot after another of visceral video -- cold beer flowing down a man's gullet, or a teen's muscle-and-bone growth spurt -- show beauty is more than skin deep.
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A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, âThe Bothersome Manâ unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.
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The name Dresden evokes two overlapping images in me-an old German city known for its beauty and the horrible destruction it suffered during World War II.
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âThings We Lost in the Fireâ bends over backward to prove that serious American movies can hold their own with the best films from overseas.
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A sprawling new novel, cinematic in its scope, explores life in the underworld of India