LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam
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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 [...]
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On BBC’s Bias: The BBC lacked insight and awareness of continental football when dealing with the World-Cup. As did ITV by the way. Luckily the BBC had Leonardo and Desailly to give us much more balanced view on the game. Obviously, they have played in different countries and had the ability to judge different systems, [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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Below the post war redevelopment that characterises Southampton’s city centre lies a labyrinth of over 100 underground vaults dating back to the twelfth century. For the second year seven of these spaces are being opened every weekend through the summer as exhibition venues. Last year the project, organised by ‘a’ space, attracted 15,000 visitors. Three [...]
Art | Artist | East London | Exhibition | History | Installation | Nature | Painting | Science | WarTHE GODS ARE NOT TO BLAME – A Timeless Story
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Currently playing at the Arcola Theatre as part of the Africa ’05 celebrations this is the second time the UK has seen this remarkable performance. Previously staged at Riverside Studios in 1978 to exceptional reviews, it is now restaged by Tiata Fahodzi ( Theatre of the Emancipated ), Britains’ leading African theatre company, under the [...]
Director | Drama | Horror | Performance | Theatre | WarSAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue
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 [...]
Actor | Director | Editor | Film | Filmmaker | Gallery | Hollywood | Humanist | Iconic | Modern | Movie | Nature | Performance | Political | Psychology | Social | War | WriterSHANGHAI ON SCREEN – Film Festival 2006
China’s city of Cinema is being celebrated in the Shanghai on Screen film festival screening at venues including the Museum in Docklands as part of the 2006 China in London event. Of special note are three documentaries screening at City Hall telling the migrant stories of the first Chinese settlers in east Londons Limehouse Basin [...]
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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 [...]
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Whitechapel Library – that great library of the East End – finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use. To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From [...]
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