Publications

Krieger und die Kaiserin, Der (The Princess and the Warrior)

James Bowman

The fairy-tale implications of title of The Princess and the Warrior (or, with German logic, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin),…

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Moulin Rouge!

James Bowman

Baz Luhrmann, director of Strictly Ballroom and Romeo+ Juliet seems with each film to be trying to outdo the absurdity…

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Shrek

James Bowman

The animated film Shrek, based on a story by William Steig and directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, is…

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Race and the Republicans

Eric Cohen

Last February, a few days after a man from Indiana had fired several shots at the White House, I found…

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The Weekly Standard / April 30, 2001

Born Again, Fifty Years Ago

George Weigel

When I first started working with evangelical Protestants some fifteen years ago, I was struck by the singular way these…

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Syndicated Column / April 26, 2001

Busyness, Misconstrued

George Weigel

Driving down a Washington thoroughfare recently, I was passed by a Metrobus with a stunning rear advertisement—so stunning, in fact,…

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Syndicated Column / April 19, 2001

The Beauty of the Crucified Lord

George Weigel

GLASGOW. In the decade since I was last here, one thing certainly hasn’t changed: that distinctive Glaswegian accent, almost incomprehensible…

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Syndicated Column / April 12, 2001

The New Eugenics

George Weigel

LONDON. Just before I began to speak to some twenty members of the British House of Commons and House of…

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Syndicated Column / April 5, 2001

Amores Perros (Love’s a Bitch)

James Bowman

The English version of the title of Amores Perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is…

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The Center of the World

James Bowman

The Center of the World, directed by Wayne Wang from a script written by Mr Wang and others under the…

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Chopper

James Bowman

Andrew Dominik’s Chopper, which tells the story—more or less—of a true-life Australian criminal-hero called Mark “Chopper” Read (Eric Bana), attempts…

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Bridget Jones’s Diary

James Bowman

What is it that has lately induced the makers of romantic movie comedies think of Jane Austen as the Everest…

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