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CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

“People don’t live in a vacuum, they live in a world determined by political and economic decisions that affect them down to the most private, the most inner part of their lives” KEN L.
Ken Loach is unassuming. His work has a richness and complexity, so often absent in modern movies, that marks a strongly humanist […]

Political, Social, Society, Television, War, Writer

TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities

TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities

The survey on Muslim communities by Channel 4’s Jon Snow in the light of the events of the 10/08.
The survey published by Channel 4’s Jon Snow on the 7th of August, highlighted what a certain section of the Muslim community made of the last events in Heathrow on the 10th of August. Coincidence, coincidence on […]

Communities, Events, Radical, Television, War

SNAKES ON A PLANE - Green Light for Quirk

SNAKES ON A PLANE - Green Light for Quirk

Snakes on a Plane is an action/horror film to be released on August 18, 2006. by New Line Cinema.
Written by David D’Alessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film finished filming principal photography in September of 2005 including five days of additional re-shooting to raise the […]

Cinema, Director, Film, Hollywood, Horror, Lover, Magic, Movie, Performance, Photography, Poetry

HITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA - Injustice in Art & History

HITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA - Injustice in Art & History

It’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose.
The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco cinemas […]

Architecture, Art, Cinema, Designer, Director, East London, Film, History, Movie, Performance

LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam

LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam

Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure and […]

Cinema, Director, Elusive, Events, Film, Horror, Inspiration, Modern, Movie, Political, Radical, Social, Theatre, War

SHOOT THE COMMUNITY? - Shoot the Messenger

SHOOT THE COMMUNITY? - Shoot the Messenger

I wasn’t privy to the preview of the film ‘Shoot the Messenger’ to a floor full of ‘community leaders’, leading lights, notables and other luminaries…
However, what I have to say was that some organizations like Ligali, who I want to stress, usually do a good job, were quick to do the intellectual jump stating that […]

BBC, Drama, Film, Television

SPIDERMAN 3 - Preview

SPIDERMAN 3 - Preview

Cast:
Tobey Mcguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, Daniel Gillies as John Jameson, J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman/Flint Marko, Topher Grace as Venom, Dylan Baker as Dr. Curt Conners, Adrian Lester as a Research Scientist, Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacey, Theresa Russell as Mrs. Marko, […]

Director, Film, Hollywood, Movie

EXILS - Journey to the Land of Their Fathers

EXILS - Journey to the Land of Their Fathers

Rukhsana Yasmin reviews Tony Gatlifs tale of two lovers on a journey to discover the land of their fathers.
Exils or Exiles tells the spirited, energetic and heartfelt story of Naima (Lubna Azabal) and her lover Zano (Romain Duris) on their journey to the land of their fathers, Algeria. Lost in the perils of immigration, these […]

Actor, Culture, Film, Lover, Movie, Music, Perils, Religion, Social

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

Friday May 19th
Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival.
‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz - gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? - and Carmen Maura, the co-stars […]

Actor, Art, Artist, Cinema, Director, Drama, Events, Festival, Film, Filmmaker, Modern, Movie, Museum, Music, Performance, Political, Social, Theatre, War

SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER

SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER

The film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents.
The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for themselves! […]

Art, Awareness, Communities, Concert, Culture, Director, East London, Festival, Film, Human rights, Performer, Photography, War, Writer