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Route Irish
If you are wondering what the route Irish is and where it is exactly, the film tells us that it is one of the most dangerous roads in the world, the road between Bagdad airport and the city’s green zone (already the title of Paul Greengrass’s film about the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq). And, if you are wondering whether Ken (…) -
Fair Game
Fair Game is the title of the book written by former CIA agent, Valerie Plame, outed by the Bush administration in 2003 as a tactic to divert public attention from the untruths told in the president’s state of the union address and offered as one of the key pieces of evidence for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program : 500 tons (…) -
La Nostra Vita
An Italian slice of life from the socially conscious historical film of Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, My Brother is an Only Child. This time the film is socially conscious but not explicitly political. A seemingly simple story of a builder, his love for his pregnant wife and their two boys, with plenty of loving scenes and extended family (…) -
Poetry
A film of great beauty, poetry, yet a film anchored in the harsh realities of daily life as well as crime and punishment. Lee Changdong, with his screenplay and his direction, has been able to bring them together in a memorable film. Most audiences will not know his leading actress, Yun Junghee, but, from the assuredness of her performance, we (…) -
Schastye Moe (My Joy)
Two hours of joyless slices of fairly savage Russian life. The director, who has a documentary background, says that he intended a more sentimental initial story and his title, My Joy, was for that tale. When he cut that and turned grim, he kept the title, with the under-understatement that it was ironic. He also speaks of his pallette, which (…)