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Retirement isn’t for everyone least of all, it seems, for film directors. Roman Polanski wrapped 2019’s
J’Accuse when he was 86 (whether, as suggested, it’s his last feature remains to be seen); Jean-Luc Godard directed his most recent film at 88, and Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira put them both to shame by working into his 104th year.
In comparison, Andrei Konchalovsky is a sprightly youngster. His brief and only marginally successful Hollywood career now well in the rear-view mirror (remember
Tango & Cash and
Dorogie tovarishchi (
Shot in academy ratio and in black and white,
A justice speaks; justice is elusive; justice is sought
By Peter Keough Globe correspondent,Updated February 18, 2021, 1:45 p.m.
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One of the unexpected revelations in Freida Lee Mockâs
âRuth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Wordsâ (2019) is that the late, idolized US Supreme Court justice, who died in September at 87, owed her writing skills to her European literature professor at Cornell University, the novelist Vladimir Nabokov. That distinguished tutelage helped make her, according to one of her former aides, the Tiger Woods of writing briefs.
Mock compiles archival interviews and public utterances by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as well as interviews with former aides, associates, and others. These tidbits personalize Ginsburgâs now-familiar trajectory from star law school graduate spurned by employers, to ace ACLU lawyer who prevailed in several gender discrimination cases brought before the Supreme Court, to D.C. Circuit judge, to associate Supreme