Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a shy low-rung British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was found dead on the veldt. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her colleague doctor Arnold Bluhm (Hubert […]
Archives for September 2005
Desperate Housewives: The Series
Audiences were captivated by the women of Wisteria Lane in the first season of Desperate Housewives, the breakout hit from ABC that almost single-handedly lifted the network from its ratings doldrums and brought back the classic TV soap, remixed now with satire, comedy, and mystery. An affectionate yet darkly tinged send-up of suburbia that skirted […]
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Cinema Therapy
Autism Spectrum Disorders are disorders that fall on the autism spectrum or autistic spectrum. They describe a range of conditions called pervasive developmental disorders, which include autism, Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), childhood disintegrative disorder, and Rett syndrome, although usually only the first three conditions are considered part of the autism […]
The Festival for Cinema of the Deaf
In 2001, the nonprofit organization The Chicago Institute for the Moving Image (CIMI) formed a think tank on the subject of “Deaf Cinema”, in order to address the specific needs of deaf audiences at a deaf film festival setting. Then in 2002, they founded the Festival for Cinema of the Deaf and held consecutive festivals […]