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All posts by James Bearclaw Lewis
Berlinale Review: “Velvet Terrorists” Mixes Fiction and Documentary… and Terrorists.
A lighthouse towers over a deserted landscape of rubble. There is a pause and then an explosion, its sound substituted for the chime of a small bell, that brings the solitary building crashing to the ground. The camera glides to the right to reveal a man stand...
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Berlinale Review: Rigor and Religion in Superb “Kreuzweg”
I’d be surprised if there were to be a better film than Kreuzweg (Stations Of The Cross) in this year’s International Competition in Berlin. German films have an unfortunate tendency to be neglected come awards time, but I would certainly suggest its young act...
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Berlinale Review: ‘Happy To Be Different’ Takes a Look At Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
A couple of weeks back, Russian (p)resident despot Vladimir Putin reiterated his position as a valiant bastion against the negative propaganda with which the homosexuals try and proselytise amongst the motherland’s youths, in anticipation of the Sochi Winter O...
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Berlinale Review: ‘Iranien’, An Experiment in Diplomacy
Mehran Tamadon, a French-Iranian atheist, set himself up for an uphill battle when he came upon the idea of gathering four Iranian clerics, who also happen to be firm believers in the existing system of an Islamic Republic, and spending two days with them in a...
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Berlinale Review: Brutality and Beauty Are Mixed in Period-Thriller ‘71
Jack O’Connell, an actor who made his name in the UK as one of the main stars of popular teen series Skins, currently finds himself on something of a hot streak. After edgy prison-drama Starred Up, the young englishman is at the heart of yet another gut-wrench...
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