WHAT IF WE ARE GOD - Threat To Democracy In The 21st Century

By unnamed ⋅ February 6, 2008 ⋅

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The current political climate is showing a political will that is struggling to effectively come to terms with global warming, let alone deal with it. Whilst a serious threat of this nature is a first for civilisation, politicians struggle with it because it can directly conflict with the agendas of those who helped them into […]

BARACK OBAMA - Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007

By unnamed ⋅ January 1, 2008 ⋅

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“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears […]

GEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003

By unnamed ⋅ January 1, 2008 ⋅

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George Galloway:
“I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember that, […]

PUBLIC ENEMY - What Happened to the Music Protests & Rage?

By unnamed ⋅ December 11, 2006 ⋅

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Having recently released “Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits”, to document their immense and far-reaching legacy to the development of hip hop music, how did Public Enemy catalyse the transition of rap music from minority interest to establishment juggernaut?
Public Enemy have released a ‘Best of’ compilation of their music […]

CITIZEN KEN - A world Determined by Political & Economic Decisions

By unnamed ⋅ November 28, 2006 ⋅

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“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 […]

LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam

By unnamed ⋅ August 4, 2006 ⋅

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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 […]

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

By Hermann Djoumessi ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅

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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 […]

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN - Johnny’s Language of Music

By unnamed ⋅ May 13, 2006 ⋅

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John McLaughlin, quite simply, is an eloquent. A guitarist whose musical vocabulary is both fluent and succinct; a musician who has proved he can work on equal terms with players from around the world and in any context. The language of music has rarely been expressed better.
He is also the guitar hero’s guitar hero; admired […]

SAYLES TECHNIQUE - A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

By unnamed ⋅ May 9, 2006 ⋅

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John Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live.

Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford Coppola,Martin […]

THE RISING - Aamir Khan’s Influences & Politics

By unnamed ⋅ May 9, 2006 ⋅

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The latest Indian blockbuster featuring an International cast and aimed at a crossover audience released recently in the UK. Sangeeta Datta talks to Aamir Khan about his influences and politics.
Bollywood is now India’s biggest calling card in the ever growing business of entertainment. It is the new buzzword and mantra in Diasporic cross cultural worlds […]