Fans of river hope film helps cleanup By JAY LINDSAY Associated Press Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Boston -- Industrial grit dominates the view of the Mystic River below the girders of the Tobin Bridge. A massive container wharf sits on...

If you're a fan of satellite imagery and movies, then shutter on down to the cineplex to see the latest Tom Clancy movie, The Sum of All Fears (if you haven't already). In the film, Director Phil Alden Robinson used imagery from...

States and the federal government need to coordinate their efforts to monitor and protect the water of the Mississippi River, a new analysis urges.The study released Tuesday by the National Research Council calls on the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate the efforts affecting the river...

Six proposed dams on the Mekong River could displace up to 75,000 villagers and harm hundreds of species like the endangered giant catfish and Irrawaddy dolphin, conservationists warned Tuesday.Premrudee Daoroung, director of the Bangkok-based environmental group TERRA, said 13-year-old plans to build four dams in...

[The River] makes it clear that we should accept Renoir for what he is—an imperfectionist, with talent great enough to contain the kind of faults that few directors today would dare to commit…. [The River] shows Renoir's talent in full flower, the film of a humanist and a poet, and in its tender intuition, affectionate understanding, follows the line of his most memorable work. As in his best American films he absorbed and reflected a new locale, so here—with more leisure, more f...

[The River] is a wonderful film of great visual beauty. The River is not a documentary. It does not deal with India's social conditions. It is not a large-scale, dynamic film like Renoir's The Grand Illusion. It is, instead, lyrical: a delicate idyll of the few months in which an adolescent English girl, living in India, passes from childhood and begins to be adult. This was the theme of Rumer Godden's novel. This is the theme of the film. India, in both, is colorful background.