Sri Lanka: witness to atrocity
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Film maker Callum Macrae has made two influential films about Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: why war crimes went unchecked
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This film is the follow-up to Channel 4’s 2011 documentary cataloguing the final year of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Coal miner's daughter fights the Empire
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The Hunger Games looks like being the next huge teenage film franchise based on a book series to follow in the footsteps of Harry Potter and Twilight.
Cutting out political punch
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I wanted to like this film. I really did. But Bel Ami, despite all its potential, is just unlikeable.
Emmerich’s "Anonymous" Shakespeare is witless tosh!
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Though it markets itself as having something fresh and startling to say, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous is only a crude sensationalist rendition of a century-old dispute: who was William Shakespeare, “really”?
Sex, violence and Stieg Larsson
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The first volume of Stieg Larsson’s thriller trilogy was originally titled Men Who Hate Women; in English translation, it was renamed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Long live free Georgia!
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It’s the final moments of a fictional 1927 silent film.
The Iron Lady: personal, not political
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Don’t think for a second that this is a political film. It is not.
Film Night: The Year of the Beaver
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Date:
7 December, 2010 - 17:45
Location:
Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street, London W1.
Description:
Feminist Fightback Film Night
Showing “Year of the Beaver” a documentary about the 1976 strike at the Grunwick photographic processing plant in London. The film uses interviews of the workforce of mainly Asian women and examines this special phase of history that set the stage for Thatcherism and ensuing neo-liberal policies.
Doors open for mince pies and wine at 7pm.
Film commences at 7.30pm with time for discussion afterwards.
Centre for Possible Studies, 64 Seymour Street, London W1.
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/edgware_road.html
Suggested donations: £5 waged (includes free glass of wine/soft drink)
£3 unwaged
You can turn up without booking if you wish, but it is useful for us if you let us know you are coming: please email dhami_kiran@yahoo.co.uk.
October Revolution Anniversary Film Showing -Leeds
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Date:
7 November, 2005 - 19:30
Location:
Leeds, O'Neills, Infirmary Street (behind the town hall)
Description:
To mark the Anniversary of the October Revolution Leeds AWL are showing of Eisensteins classic film, "October"
The showing starts at 7-30pm O'Neills, Infirmary Street, Leeds.
Followed by a short discussion title "Is the Russian Revolution still relevant for Socialists"
description:
To mark the Anniversary of the October Revolution Leeds AWL are showing of Eisensteins classic film, "October"
The showing starts at 7-30pm O'Neills, Infirmary Street, Leeds.
Followed by a short discussion title "Is the Russian Revolution still relevant for Socialists"
Location:
Leeds, O'Neills, Infirmary Street (behind the town hall)
Leeds, O'Neills, Infirmary Street (behind the town hall)