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THE TIME THAT REMAINS

The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then.  Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces … Continue reading

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

We Brits don’t usually like our treasured classics tempered with especially by foreigners (God forbid!) so I approached this new re-make of John Le Carrie’s consummate thriller ‘Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy’ with caution.  This old-school spy story set in the scary Cold War period in the 1960’s which has more than a hint of truth … Continue reading

TINY FURNITURE

This is unquestionable the most self-indulgent semi-autobiographical quirky comedy I have seen for years.  And I liked it. I think. Aura has just graduated college in Ohio with a fairly useless degree and now that her boyfriend has dumped she goes back home to live with her successful artist mother and precocious younger sister in … Continue reading

Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie

  For all of its 59 years of life Barbie, the worlds’ most famous doll, has always been a controversial figure. When she was ‘born’ in 1959 Barbie was the first ever doll shaped as a woman, with breasts even,  as up to this point in time children’s dolls had only been babies.  Scorned by the male Buyers … Continue reading

TO ROME WITH LOVE

Unlike fellow American filmmaker Roman Polanski, Woody Allen’s ‘exile’ in Europe is self imposed and no doubt encouraged by the fact that the Europeans worship them far more as celebrated auteurs than in their own country.  Unlike Polanski who goes out of his way to pretend that his movies are filmed in the US, Allen’s … Continue reading

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