A BBC reporter talks about RTA, the state broadcaster in Afghanistan, and how pictures of the president never made it to air one night.

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That's what the magazine The Nation is urging people to do.

In its ActNow! section, columnist Peter Rothenburg noted it was the first time a documentary had ever been nominated for an overall favourite.

A Q-and-A with Manohla Dargis of the NYT.

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Formerly successful film director Peter Bogdanovich bemoans the absence of old-time movie stars in a BBC interview.

Fifty-four journalists have died in 2004, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported. That makes it the worst year in a decade.

According to a BBC story on the CPJ's news release, Iraq was the ...   more »