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Peter Chan’s Noir Drama ‘She’s Got No Name’ Debuts in Shanghai After “Experimental” Two-Part Overhaul

Peter Chan’s Noir Drama ‘She’s Got No Name’ Debuts in Shanghai After “Experimental” Two-Part Overhaul

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A mystery has been resolved this week at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) as Peter Chan’s reworked version of She’s Got No Name helped open the event, before going on an almost-immediate limited release on 120 screens spread across this vast city. The acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker’s decision to split the film — which made its premiere out of competition at Cannes in 2024 — into two parts had raised eyebrows, as did the news that the first installment would take the marquee billing at China’s major annual cinema gathering. In the end, it all makes sense. While the Cannes version’s 150-minute running time and twisting narrative arc had prompted questions of the film’s commercial potential, the version of She’s Got No Name that screened at SIFF comes in at a tight — and tense — 96 minutes that dig deep into the darkness of the real-life tale of an abused woman, Zhan-Zhou (played by Zhang Ziyi), charged with the murder of her husband in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai of the 1940s. It was a …

Peter Mendelsund: ‘Weepers’ – The Atlantic

Peter Mendelsund: ‘Weepers’ – The Atlantic

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You can see the buttes and mesas easily—see them from the road. But to see them in all their glory, you have to walk a ways off the asphalt. That’s true for the rest of it as well: the dried riverbeds, gullies, hoodoos, and hogbacks. The sky you can see from anywhere, but go farther into the land and it becomes bluer, deeper, and the whole shebang becomes just stupidly scenic, like something a cartoon roadrunner would paint to outwit a cartoon coyote. Meaning death might lurk behind every vista. Explore the July 2025 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More My father and I used to go out there together. The “together” being a concession to my mother, a concession granted bitterly and retributed upon me in various ways. He would hunt. Desert mule deer, mostly. He didn’t say much to me on those trips. No life lessons. It was mostly us tramping around, him shooting, animals dropping, me bearing dumb witness. Out among arroyos, …

Legendary comic book writer Peter David dies after series of health issues at age 68

Legendary comic book writer Peter David dies after series of health issues at age 68

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Legendary comic book creator Peter David, best known for his 12-year run on theThe Incredible Hulk, has died. He was 68. His death was announced on Sunday by friend and fellow author Keith R.A. DeCandido. “Just got the news that Peter David finally lost his rather lengthy battle with his failing physical form last night,” DeCandido wrote on Facebook. open image in gallery Legendary comics writer Peter David died at 68 following a series of health issues (Getty Images) “I first met Peter 35 years ago, when he appeared on The Chronic Rift public access show, and over the last three-and-a-half decades, he has been a respected creator, a good friend, a valued colleague, and a generally wonderful person,” he added. DeCandido continued: “I have a lot to say about him, but right now I’m just sad that I won’t get to enjoy his delightfully smart …

Peter Schmeichel says Man Utd need ‘best stadium in the world’ in Old Trafford debate

Peter Schmeichel says Man Utd need ‘best stadium in the world’ in Old Trafford debate

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The project, which includes regeneration of the area, would see Man Utd move away from the historic ground after more than 115 years there. Schmeichel enjoyed nine years at Old Trafford as a player – making nearly 400 appearances as he helped Sir Alex Ferguson’s side win five Premier League titles, three FA Cups, the League Cup, and the Champions League. Peter Schmeichel.  Photographed by Matt Writtle for UNICEF UK and Soccer Aid Productions. ©UNICEF/Soccer Aid Productions/Stella Pictures The Dane will be back at the Theatre of Dreams in June as part of the World XI management team at Soccer Aid 2025, and believes it is the true home of the celebrity charity match. “I think Old Trafford is and should be the home of Soccer Aid,” he explained. “That’s just a personal opinion because it’s been there eight times, and it just feels right. There will be 75,000 people there.” It’s no secret that the historic ground has become outdated and has needed work for some time, but the decision to build a new …

Circling the Good | Peter Singer

Circling the Good | Peter Singer

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Martin Luther King Jr. said that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Was he right? Some skeptics might question whether there even is such a thing as “the moral universe.” What we call morality, they may say, is nothing more than the subjective judgments of people in various times and places. Customs or religious teachings may impose a high degree of uniformity within a particular society, but cultures differ, and there is no basis for saying that one has gotten it right and the other wrong. It would therefore be an illusion to think that the shift from one conception of morality to another amounts to progress, for there are no moral truths toward which progress can be measured. A different kind of skeptic might accept that there is a “moral universe”—that is, that some moral judgments are true and others are false—but deny that we today are morally better than people in ancient civilizations or that there is any long-term trend bringing us closer to justice. To …

Existentialism in Norway: Who Was Peter Wessel Zapffe?

Existentialism in Norway: Who Was Peter Wessel Zapffe?

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Published Mar 13, 2025written by Maysara Kamal, BA Philosophy & Film   Man’s tragic search for meaning is a timeless theme that permeates some of the most famous philosophical works in history. While Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Nietzche were internationally acclaimed for their contributions to existentialism, a linguistic barrier veiled an equally important philosopher whose works only got translated posthumously. Peter Wessel Zapffe is a Norwegian mountaineer, artist, and philosopher whose works on existentialism, pessimism, and human evolution are highly relevant today.   What Characterizes Zapffe’s Writings? A picture of a mountain, captured by Peter Wessel Zapffe. Source: Wikimedia Commons   Zapffe’s writings are characterized by a poetic style, a sense of humor, and profound insights. Long before his rise as a philosopher, Zapffe was pressured by his parents to pursue a career in law. Yet even then, his poetic style seeped through the cracks of legal language and he completed his law exam in 1923 entirely on rhyme. During law school, Zapffe taught himself mountain climbing and soon became one of the most famous Norwegian …

Peter ‘Navy’ Tuiasosopo death: Fast and Furious and New Girl actor dies, aged 61

Peter ‘Navy’ Tuiasosopo death: Fast and Furious and New Girl actor dies, aged 61

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter TV and film actor Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, known for his work on Street Fighter, The Fast and the Furious and New Girl, has died aged 61, his family has announced. In a statement shared online, the actor’s son, Manoah Peter Tuiasosopo, said: “With a heavy heart, my family and I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Our father Peter N. Tuiasosopo passed away this morning at 3:16 am.” A cause of death was not disclosed in the post, but his son later told TMZ that his father had died from heart complications. “My dad lived an amazing life and in no way does his impact stop here,” he wrote. “His strength, love, compassion, and kindness will forever be felt.” “We will continue to live with him in spirit, and as saddened as we are, he is without a doubt in Heaven with his …

Peter Thiel’s ‘Fresh and Strange’ Ideas Are Certainly the Latter

Peter Thiel’s ‘Fresh and Strange’ Ideas Are Certainly the Latter

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Just two years ago, Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News showed that many right-wing influencers didn’t believe a word of the stuff they were peddling to their audiences. In text messages that surfaced during litigation, top Fox anchors and executives poured scorn on the idea that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, even as the network amplified that conspiracy theory to its audience. “Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” Tucker Carlson wrote in one message. Today, though, some of the country’s most mainstream, most influential conservatives are stoking paranoid conspiracism—and seem to genuinely believe what they’re saying. The venture capitalist Peter Thiel, for example, could not be more of an establishment figure: He was an early investor in Facebook, is now a mentor of Vice President–Elect J. D. Vance, and has strong links to the U.S. defense industry through his company Palantir. But in a recent opinion column in the ultra-establishment Financial Times, Thiel sounds like The X-Files’ Fox Mulder after a long night in the Bigfoot forums. “The …

Passion’s Countervoices | Peter Brooks

Passion’s Countervoices | Peter Brooks

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Near the start of Félix de Vandenesse’s frustrated passion for the married Henriette de Mortsauf in The Lily in the Valley, she asks him how he is so attuned to the trials she suffers as wife, mother, and subject of sensual temptation: “How can one so young know such things? Were you a woman once?” Félix’s answer only appears beside the point: “‘Oh,’ I answered, enthralled, ‘my childhood was one long illness.’” Being (like) a woman, it seems, resembles an illness; it’s inevitably marked by unhappiness. Félix’s early years were thoroughly deprived of all pleasure by a cold and punishing mother; he spent them penniless in severe boarding schools, which prepared him for the moment when, at a ball in the city of Tours to celebrate the return of the Bourbon monarchs after the abdication of Napoleon in 1814, he comes upon the décolletage of Madame de Mortsauf, whom he does not know, and throws himself at her, devouring her shoulders with kisses. She reacts with predictable outrage but, we discover much later, is fatally …