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A Mighty Heart (English Corner)
One of the highest profiles of foreign journalists abducted in recent years is that of Daniel Pearl who worked for the Wall St Journal. This tribute, memoir and picture of the investigation into his disappearance is based on his wife’s memoir and dedicated to his son, not yet born at the time of his death. Directed by Michael Winterbottom (his (…) -
Chacun son cinéma (English Corner)
If you didn’t like this three minute segment, then there was another coming up shortly. Forty in fact – a project of Gilles Jacob to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Festival de Cannes. And a fine cinema celebration it is. Forty directors were asked to contribute a short film on cinema. Those who brought a sense of humour to their project (…) -
Soom (English Corner)
In recent years Kim Ki-Duk has achieved a world-wide reputation and has been making brief, more focused films (Binjip, The Bow). It is the same here, a small drama in 84 minutes. A lonely housewife is fascinated by the TV news of a murderer on death row attempting suicide. She visits him in prison, bringing some colour and joy to his life, (…) -
Bikur Hatizmoret (English Corner)
What if an Egyptian police band turned up to the wrong Israeli town to play at the inauguration of the Arab cultural centre ? A pleasing premise for a light story of friendship and understanding. Director Eran Kolirin remembers his past when there was such a visit, the days when families in Israel used to watch soap operas from Egypt on TV. (…) -
No Country for Old Men (English Corner)
The Coens are back to their idiosyncratic world (based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy). This time it is 1980, the new west is more lawless and deadly than the old days of sheriffs and bad guys : Vietnam has happened and the gangster crime dramas are played out in the Texas desert. With plenty of their dry, wry humour and (…)