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achievement of a radical filmmaker divides and haunts Italy, thirty-four years after his death
Globalisation should mean fostering difference, not fencing off the aliens, says Tom Nairn after seeing the film District 9
The Danish filmmaker uses image as a "celluloid icon" to explore the depths of the Christian unconscious
The great filmmaker's bond with his homeland was conflictual as well as intimate
The great Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky died in May this year. Mumin Shakirov reviews the career of this outstanding actor and man
Oleg Yankovsky as Metropolit Philip in Pavel Lungin's film "Tsar".
The passing of a great filmmaker of Alexandria and Egypt casts light on his country’s journey (archive)
Vladimir Bortko's blockbuster "Taras Bulba" reveals Hollywood's inroads into Russian film
Pavel Bardin's film Russia 88, about Russian Nazis, has incurred official displeasure even before its release. Bardin says he wants to help government fight Russian fascism. Critics say the film's good. So what's the problem?The blogosphere is buzzing with answers
(Photo: Rossiya 88 film)
Russia has been gripped by the spectacle of a public battle for the heart of the film industry, says the cultural sociologist, Danil Dondurey.
In an era of growing Kremlin control over media, two big new Russian films remain defiant
The film director Theo Angelopoulos talks about turmoil in Greece, a generational failure and about his new film ‘The Dust of
Time'
"Gomorrah", a fearless anatomy of Napoli's mafia, also exposes the new face of global crime
The Dark Knight offers - via Slavoj Zizek - a bleak insight into democracy's post-9/11 moral void
Cristian Mungiu makes humane, engaging art from
the bleakness of a young woman's illegal abortion
The homecoming of an exiled militant is the beginning of a new journey
The great Swedish filmmaker made art that speaks profoundly to the truth of ourselves
"The Lives of Others" depicts a world of paranoia and foreboding, but this is no ordinary cold war thriller. The compelling exploration of the "dark side" of Communist East Germany sets this film apart, says Steve Crawshaw.
Rachel Rawlins talks to director Abderrahmane Sissako about his new film Bamako, the IMF, the World Bank and relationships.
Clint Eastwood's film "Letters from Iwo Jima" finds the humanity behind
the brutality of war, thus honouring the past and opening hearts in the
present, says Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, author of "Kamikaze Diaries".
Robert Altman's last film, A Prairie Home Companion is a beautiful farewell to life and art, writes Maggie Gee
Sylvester Stallone's sixth instalment in the "Rocky" franchise about a washed-up palooka-cum-hero may be a movie driven by cartoon logic, but it is also a masterful exercise in nostalgia and American redemption, says Kasia Boddy.
Babel’s emotional and visual pleasures should not blind us to the simpler story told by the gift of the gun, says novelist Maggie Gee.
Forest Whitaker's superb performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin cannot redeem a hollow film that washes whiter a complex reality, says Stephen Howe.
Mel Gibson's Mayan blockbuster is an imperialist Christian dream but otherwise an historical and cultural nightmare, says Kanishk Tharoor.
openDemocracy's Richard Young talks to David Leaf, writer and director of "John Lennon vs the US", a film about the Nixon administration's attempts to silence Lennon's anti-war message.
As Sacha Baron Cohen's provocative film hits cinemas worldwide, Kasia Boddy asks who has done the most "cultural learning", Kazakhstan or America?
Nick Broomfield's powerful docudrama uncovers the ghosts of poverty, corruption and racism that haunt British migrant workers.
A new French film that exposes amnesia about the colonial subjects who fought for France against Nazism in the second world war has profound contemporary resonance, says Patrice de Beer.
The real target of Stephen Frears's depiction of a British queen under siege from politicians and people following Princess Diana's death is the constitutional system embodied in Tony Blair's imperial prime ministership. Tom Nairn, pioneering critic of Britain's monarchical state, views the film and looks beyond.
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