FAR FROM the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. The 2005 Oscar winner in ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. Still basking in the ...

“Tsotsi” transports its audience so quickly from horrific murder to bemusing baby antics that the price of a ticket should include a whiplash brace. Because the South African import – and this year’s ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama "Tsotsi" resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

Some worthy pictures–“Syriana” being an example–work better the second time, which doesn’t help you the first time, but there it is. Other films do their job effectively, owing more to reasons of ...

The residue of imperialism hangs over modern day Johannesburg, portrayed in stark and unforgiving detail by director Gavin Hood in his crime drama “Tsotsi.” The film, which won Best Foreign Language ...

JOHANNESBURG — Oscar winner “Tsotsi,” TV newsroom drama “Hard Copy” and soap “Isidingo” were the biggest winners at the first South African Film and Television Awards on Saturday. Broadcast live on ...

As a child growing up in Johannesburg, writer/director Gavin Hood rarely saw images of fellow South Africans onscreen. When “Tsotsi,” his film about a brutish gangster re-evaluating his life while ...

Gavin Hood is a white South African who recalls being raised by a Zulu housekeeper and befriending her young son. But as boys grew older, they were separated. Because of apartheid and segregation, ...

For the 19-year-old man-child they call Tsotsi -- Johannesburg street slang for "thug" -- it has come down to this: He has burst into an apartment, pulled out a gun and forced the woman inside to ...

Pirated copies of the Oscar-winning South African film “Tsotsi” are selling like hotcakes in Botswana, the country’s northern neighbor, despite the March arrest of key members of a syndicate ...

A hardened young South African gang leader steals a woman's car -– then finds out her baby is in the back seat. So starts the South African film Tsotsi, which is up for an Academy Award for best ...