Near the end of 1979, the new hardline rulers of Iran - incensed by the US government’s support for the previous despot - stormed the embassy in Teheran and held…
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When I first visited this country back in 1982 we flew across the Pacific Ocean in daylight and from my window seat I got a birds eye view of ……
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I watch a lot of movies in this job and this week I’d like to start with a couple of important tips that will help keep your cinema-going experience in…
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My favourite post-Oscars quote came from David Thomson in The Guardian: “When the Slumdog mob – Europeans and Indians, adults and kids – took the stage to claim the best…
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I fully intended to bring some intellectual acuity back to film commentary this week; maybe toss around terms like Mise-en-scène and cognitive dissonance; maybe name drop Bresson and his thematic…
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Returning swiftly from the Festival is The Italian, a lovely and old-fashioned art-house winner about a six year-old Russian orphan played by the wonderful Kolya Spiridonov. He's Vanya, a little…
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