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10 Events
on Saturday the 23rd of February, 2008
Iraq is front and centre in many films in recent years, none more so than this harrowing new work by documentarian Nick Broomfield. The film is a highly realistic, vérité-like fictional rendering of an incident that took place in the village ...
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Life has not been easy for twelve year old Slindile, her siblings and her friends at the Agape Orphanage in South Africa, where most of the children have lost their parents to AIDS. But they are still kids and ...
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Losey’s Don Giovanni is a social study out of Brecht, who once argued: ‘We find the glamour of this parasite less interesting than the parasitic aspects of his glamour’. As the orchestra strikes up the Overture, the Don is touring his ...
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There are 50 million blind people in the world; 90% of these people live in developing countries. ‘What use is an exterior view of the factory if I cannot see what is going on inside the building in terms of relationships, wage ...
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In 1959, about the same time that Doris Day defended her honor from Rock Hudson’s assault in “Pillow Talk,” an extraordinarily pretty Bronx girl named Linda Riss fought off a married lawyer. Burt Pugach was thirty-two, Linda ten years ...
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A rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a twenty-nine-year old would-be screenwriter who has just had the worst year of his life, is new to Los ...
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William Francome, a nicely brought up middle-class white man, was born in England on 9 December 1981. That same night, Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia. He protested his innocence, but was found ...
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In her gorgeous and love-affirming feature debut – which was the sleeper hit of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival – Nadine Labaki finds gold in the hot goo used to strip body hair. Set in and around a Beirut beauty salon, Caramel stirs together ...
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Based on the best selling novel by Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl, is an engrossing and sensual tale of intrigue, romance, and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in history. Two sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and ...
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Smoking proves hazardous to a man’s health, but not for the customary reasons, in the rewardingly Kafkaesque Tres Bién, Merci. Compact and pleasingly perverse, this cautionary tale about stepping out of line is a slyly entertaining look at ...
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