Auschwitz-Birkenau

Rosemary's Baby

Uptown Theatre, Friday and Saturday at midnight

Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno targets true nature of celebrity

U.K. comic succeeds again at creating a persona we hate to love

Man rams abortion clinic; buy your own skyway

All the weird news that's fit to print in capsule-sized bites

Man who slammed vehicle into Planned Parenthood said God made him do it

Waltz with Bashir documentary uses animation to cover tough subject

Serious 'toon explores how mind copes with repressed violence

Deadly Medicine

Serious 'toon explores how mind copes with repressed violence

4/14: Morning Communique

Serious 'toon explores how mind copes with repressed violence

Black on Black Grime

The Natalie Johnson Lee/Don Samuels race for city council is one of the nastiest campaigns in local memory

Survivor stories: "We sailed over houses"

The Natalie Johnson Lee/Don Samuels race for city council is one of the nastiest campaigns in local memory

Land Of The Lost

It was Ingmar Bergman's Century--we just lived in it

The Real Grand Excursion

A hardy band of travelers light out for the big easy

Peace Like A Turtle

Meaning of life found...In Cannon Falls

Atom and Eve

The holocaust as taped tragedy; the atom bomb as marital ordeal

Empty Cabinets

Simon Norfolk talks about genocide, landscape, and beauty

Hello Cruel World

Needcompany gets the "big black ball" of tragedy on a roll

J'amuse

The Ministry of Cultural Warfare issues a manifesto for revolutionary sketch comedy: If all art is political, stay away from lousy politics

Geek Squad

X-Men puts its superhero "muties" in charge of flattering the core audience

Love and Death

In Mr. Death, documentarian Errol Morris trains his beloved Interrotron on execution technologist-turned-Holocaust denier Fred Leuchter

Sandy Berman's Last Stand

For 26 years Hennepin County's head cataloger led the charge for libraries of, by, and for the people. When he took aim at a new target this spring, his boss fired back.

Jeffrey Shandler: While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust

For 26 years Hennepin County's head cataloger led the charge for libraries of, by, and for the people. When he took aim at a new target this spring, his boss fired back.

The Big One

A visit to the lost world of Steven Spielberg

Paint It Black

Absence/Presence searches for the aesthetics of genocide; Thomas Hart Benton hits the road

Live Through This

Cut short: Eamonn Owens and Stephen Rea in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy

Fiction is Stranger than Fiction

Two historical figures, filmmaker F.W. Murnau and geneticist Gregor Mendel, step out of the past into two new novels

Mpls./St. Paul Film Fest Roundup

Two historical figures, filmmaker F.W. Murnau and geneticist Gregor Mendel, step out of the past into two new novels

Celluloid Shalom

Keeping the Faith: A Hasidic boy recites his prayers in A Life Apart: Hasidism in America.

Taken for a Ride

St. Paul police officers roughed up a quadriplegic man who couldn't obey orders to put his hands in the air. Chief William Finney upheld the man's complaint, but didn't discipline the cops.

Internet, Book, Video, Music

Art Crimes, Susan Welch, Amiri Baraka, Edward Humes, Garry Wills, The Wife, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, Sweet Nothing, Boz Scaggs, dEUS

Widow's Lament

In 1956, Anna Elisabeth Colsch married a GI from the Frankfurt Army base and followed him to Minneapolis. He died in a car crash a few years later. Or so she was told.

Animal Rights and the Nazis: Feeling Their Pain

In 1956, Anna Elisabeth Colsch married a GI from the Frankfurt Army base and followed him to Minneapolis. He died in a car crash a few years later. Or so she was told.