Posts Tagged with ‘Women’
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Wonder Woman – More of the Same Manly Stuff
19 Jun 2017Let me introduce myself as one of the only moviegoers in the western world to see Wonder Woman— on the…
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Two Cultures, Two Loves and the Anvil of Tradition
01 Mar 2017Two compelling films from remote corners of the earth, one of them nominated for an Oscar, are recently available to…
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Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam
26 Jan 2016The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…
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Testament of Youth — WW I Pacifist Comes to Film
02 Jul 2015Vera Brittain, one of the least lost of the Lost Generation of WW I, is on her third revival…
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Xiao Hong — Women in Rural China
17 Apr 2015Some months ago I saw The Golden Era, a recent movie by Ann Hui about a ground breaking Chinese woman writer…
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Water — A Film of India’s Widows
13 Nov 2013Water is the third of Indo-Canadian director, Deepa Mehta‘s Elements trilogy of women in India. Fire was produced in 1996,…
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Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
16 Jun 2011Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely…
