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As Quentin Tarantino’s movies have always been heavily laden with allusions to the history of film, and as his new one, Inglourious Basterds, takes the director’s passion for self-referentiality to new heights, placing cinema itself in the center of the plot and portraying it as mankind’s metaphorical and literal salvation, it is perfectly fair to ...

Farouk Hosny, Egypt’s minister of culture, is heading to France as part of a campaign to salvage his controversial bid to be the next head of UNESCO, the Paris-based cultural arm of the United Nations. Late last month he “solemnly” apologized in Le Monde for a statement he made a year ago, when he objected ...