Email Author Michelle Orange

2008 Stories by Michelle Orange

• Wonders Are Many: Atomic Doc

  published May 27, 2008

  One consonant away from an icon of American innocence, "Oppie," as the spindly genius and nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to... More >>

• Bigger, Stronger, Faster*: Roid Documentary

  published May 27, 2008

  My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having somehow washed into the Canadian suburbs in the... More >>

• Unsettled

  published May 6, 2008

  Punctuating—in more ways than one—his legacy with a major question mark, Ariel Sharon presided over the forced evacuation of... More >>

• Unsettled: Burningly Smart

  published May 6, 2008

  Punctuating—in more ways than one—his legacy with a major question mark, Ariel Sharon presided over the forced evacuation of Israeli... More >>

• Tribeca's MidEast Fixation

  published April 22, 2008

  Arranged as a kind of Middle Eastern tasting menu, several Tribeca offerings begin not only to complement but to converse with one another. The... More >>

• Etgar Keret's Short-Story Overload

  published April 15, 2008

  The first story in The Girl on the Fridge, Israeli writer Etgar Keret's new collection, doubles as an opening announcement: The briefest... More >>

• Talking With Jellyfish Director Etgar Keret

  published April 1, 2008

  Etgar Keret thinks I'd make a good mother; we've just met, but he claims to have a sense for these things. Backing that up is the Israeli... More >>

• My Blueberry Nights: Wong Kar Wai Tries American Pie

  published April 1, 2008

  Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is "like being smothered in baked Alaska." Reading that as a teenager raised some... More >>

• Talking with Christopher Honoré and Louis Garrel

  published March 18, 2008

  Christophe Honoré is wondering if there's an English word for "older than old." The French director (Ma Mère, Dans... More >>

• Under the Same Moon's Immigrant-Hardship Vignettes

  published March 18, 2008

  Firing off a deluge of immigrant-hardship vignettes with the thudding consistency of a tennis-ball machine, Under the Same Moon presents... More >>

• Wetlands Preserved: An Appropriately Mellow Chronicle

  published March 11, 2008

  About halfway through Wetlands Preserved, an appropriately mellow chronicle of a Tribeca nightclub's lifespan, music writer Richard Gehr... More >>

• Sleepwalking: Relentless in Its Bleakness

  published March 11, 2008

  Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron) is the kind of broad who has second thoughts right before nailing her date on the kitchen table while her... More >>

• 15 French Premieres in "Rendez-Vous" Fest

  published February 26, 2008

  Beginning on February 29 and running for 10 days, the annual "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema" (co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln... More >>