film reviews
‘Perfect Days’: Cleaning the toilets of Tokyo
March 15, 2024What is life for? How do you spend the brief time that we have on earth? What makes you happy? Will your work make you free?
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Pan African Film Festival 2024: ‘Me Captain’ and ‘One Person, One Vote?’
March 11, 2024The 32nd Pan African Film & Arts Festival, America’s largest Black-themed filmfest, took place last month during Black History Month, in Los Angeles. PAFF screens movies ranging from Hollywood studio productions to indies, foreign films, documentaries,...
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Pan-African Film Festival: Growing up Black in the GDR
February 28, 2024From Berlin to Benin and Togo - and back again.
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Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany
February 27, 2024Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.
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‘The Taste of Things’: A gastronomic feast of l’amour on film
February 12, 2024Writer/director Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, a tasty full-course movie meal that serves up spectacular cuisine and rarefied romance, is an acquired taste.
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