Posts Tagged with ‘Resistance’
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Liu Xiaobo: Keeping Alive
14 Jul 2017Liu Xiaobo, one of the world’s most courageous men, Chinese dissident, died of liver cancer in a Chinese hospital, died…
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Beautiful Souls: A Review
23 Jul 2013Some time ago I spent a weekend in the company of fellow Vietnam War resisters, trying to talk about what…
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To End All Wars: A Movie: A Moral Claim: Mercy Unimaginable
18 Oct 2012To End All Wars, 2001, by David L Cunningham is a film I might normally recommend for all the typical filmic reasons:…
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The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
01 Aug 2012Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees,…
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The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
05 Jul 2012The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies…
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Standing Alone: Lives of Light
11 Mar 2012Here’s a book I wish I’d had in the run-up and early years of the US invasion of Iraq. There…
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Army of Crime — Immigrants Who Fought for France, A Film
26 Mar 2011My dear Melinée, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We…
