Honouring Ordeal in the Trenches: Interview with Journey’s End Director Saul Dibb
This remembrance of World War I in today's Brexit Britain illuminates the public's ignorance towards the bloody lessons of the past.
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The Cyclic Nature of Struggle: Interview with ‘Afghan Cycles’ Director Sarah Menzies
For Afghan women, moving forward in a country that is moving backward is extraordinarily difficult. Sarah Menzies documents their pursuit of freedom and independence from the seats of their bicycles.
In Defense of Errol Morris’s ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
Morris knows how our own projections have been weaponized against both those in the Abu Ghraib photos and ourselves as the public consuming the photos, obfuscating the standard operating procedure of the title.
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Game of Throne’s Daenerys Targaryen Is Niccolò Machiavelli’s Perfect Princ[ess]
If Niccolò Machiavelli were alive today he would enjoy the politically-charged and fantastical world of Game of Thrones, particularly the moral struggles of Daenerys Targaryen.
Short Stories: Casualties of War
These five stories by Zadie Smith, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Helen Oyeyemi, Hassan Blassim, and Muna Fadil, highlight the lives of innocents tangled in the machinations of war.
Genocide and the Benevolence of ‘The Beekeeper’
Using techniques applied in his work, an Iraqi beekeeper rescued Yazidi and Christian minority women and children from Daesh during the recent Sinjar massacres.
‘We’ll Always Have Casablanca’
Isenberg doesn’t reveal much about the lives or careers of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, but he provides some interesting and less well-known information.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Holocaust Film ‘Paradise’ Draws Illusions in the Ruins
Using documentary-style interviewing techniques and three narrators, Konchalovsky's work brings to mind well-known literary naturalists like Jack London and Stephen Crane.
Oscar-Snubbed ‘Foxtrot’ Is a Deft Commentary on Systemic Corruption and Grief
What do we even know about war, Foxtrot seems to ask, except that it's a dance that will surely never end.
‘Hotel Silence’ Unpacks a Crisis of Masculinity
The protagonist's blind allegiance to dominant conceptions of masculinity is so ingrained in his psyche that he never contemplates resistance.
Cary Grant Blu’s: ‘Operation Petticoat’ and ‘Father Goose’
The extras in these Olive Films Blu-rays will give you a new appreciation for these films.
Necessity, Not Ambition: Sonia Kronlund on Her Documentary, ‘The Prince of Nothingwood’
If The Prince of Nothingwood will popularly be remembered for celebrating the creative spirit of its star Salim Shaheen, it is equally an important communication on Afghanistan, it's culture and its people.