THE SQUARE Director Jehane Noujaim In 2011, a group of activists made Tahrir Square in Cairo the center of demonstrations demanding an end to the nation’s repressive government. As the movement suddenly gained mass support and became the focus of international media attention, Egypt was on the brink of revolution. Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was a […]
Square, The (2013): Egyptian Jehane Noujaim’s Oscar Nominated Political Documentary
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Wobblies, The: Compelling Documentary of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)
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4k Restoration of the Landmark Labor Movement Documentary by Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer View Trailer USA | 1979 | 89 mins | Color | English “Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and […]
Peter von Kant: Francois Ozon’s Male, Self-Reflexive Take on Fassbinder’s Femal Melodrama, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
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François Ozon’s career breakthrough occurred in 2000 with his third feature, an adaptation of an unproduced stage play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Water Drops on Burning Rocks. (I saw it at the Toronto Film Fest) SOURCE: C. BETHUEL, FOZ PETER VON KANT The ultra-prolific and versatile Ozon has proved to be a filmmaker very […]
Parisienne, La (Une Parisienne) (1957): Michel Boisrond’s Technicolor French Comedy, Starring Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal
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Michel Boisrond directed La Parisienne, a French comedy, starring Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal. Bardot plays the daughter of the French President who marries her father’s secretary, but the couple become jealous of each other’s sexual flings. Brigitte Laurier, the daughter of the President of France, is madly in love with Michel Legrand […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: Chadwick Boseman’s Final, Brilliant Performance
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Chadwick Boseman makes his final appearance starring opposite Viola Davis in this adaptation of August Wilson’s play about a fraught recording session with the “Mother of the Blues” in jazz age Chicago.
