Zero Dark Thirty
The depiction of waterboarding in “Zero Dark Thirty,” denounced by everyone from the CIA’s Michael Morell and Republican senator John McCain to the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, was not a cinematic first. A film made in 1959 and based meticulously on the...
Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, December 10 - 14, 2012:ART— Damien Hirst is leaving Gagosian, his longtime gallery, which held exhibitions of his spot paintings at all...
On Sunday, November 4, two days before the Presidential Election, the National Geographic Channel will broadcast “Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden.” Directed by John Stockwell, the film depicts, obviously, the events leading up to the...
Up until now, there hasn’t been too much information available about Kathryn Bigelow’s new film “Zero Dark Thirty.” All that we knew was that the film had already stirred up controversy due to the Obama administration’s willingness to cooperate with the...
The actor who has played Osama bin Laden in Kathryn Bigelow’s film about his smoking out by CIA operatives and subsequent killing is unknown to America audiences. Ricky Sekhon has appeared in a clutch of independent British movies, but Bigelow’s tentatively...
