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Volevo solo vivere (English Corner)
The Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education was established by Steven Spielberg in the aftermath of his making Schindler’s List. Almost 52,000 interviews of concentration camp survivors, principally Jewish but not exclusively, were taped in 56 countries and 32 languages. Already ten documentaries have been made incorporating (…) -
Lights in the Dusk (English Corner)
Now we have Kaurismaki’s Man without a Future - he is a Man without very much of a present as well. Once again we are in Helsinki, back in the lower socio-economic area and population. The film is only 80 minutes long but the director has used constant long fade-outs that make the film seem both episodic and longer than it is. Several (…) -
Luxury car (English Corner)
Every culture seems to go through a phase as it makes cultural and social transitions, especially as agriculture declines and country townspeople move to the large cities where they find survival is not easy and they get caught up in the squalid side of life. It seems that Chinese films have to deal with these themes now. A retiring school (…) -
Uro (English Corner)
It looks as though every national cinema needs to do its drug culture thrillers. This is one of Norway’s attempts. While it is reminiscent of Hollywood variations on this theme, it is distinctively Scandinavian - with its overcast weather, to say the least. While this is a genre picture, it does not glamorise its subject. The drug stuff (…) -
Southland Tales (English Corner)
This is a big show - very big. It is a bumptious show - exceedingly bumptious. It is long (160 minutes), loud, confounding and confusing in its plot, touching on all kinds of current social issues and is set, after an atomic explosion in Texas, in Los Angeles, 2008, with George W. Bush still president, an election coming up, many rueful (…)