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A Sentimental Education
The Angels' Share can be briefly summarized as delinquent kids becoming connoisseurs of the finest Scotch and realizing that because there is always 2-3% natural evaporation as whisky matures, they have stumbled on the ultimate victimless crime. If Georges is the most solicitous of husbands to his invalid wife, Haneke also investigates the play of power and resistance which leads Anne, completely paralyzed, to spit a mouthful of water at her husband as a gesture of independence.
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Film and the end of empire
\"In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperalism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An Amorous Catfish
[...] the death of cinema has been a staple topic of conversation among film folk since the advent of sound but somehow there was a deathly chill in the air as though the films that Cannes depends on that blend art and money, originality and star power, may in fact be passing from the screens. [...] Goclard has all but abandoned narrative since Hail Mary twenty-five years ago, but his contribution to Cannes this year, Socialism, took the deconslruction of story to a new level.
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Jarman's Renaissance Cinema
This article traces the development of Derek Jarman's interest in the Renaissance and its articulation in five of his films: Jubilee (1977), The Tempest (1980), The Angelic Conversation (1985), Caravaggio (1986), and Edward II (1991). It considers the impact of his formative education at King's College, London, on his later cinematic work, emphasising his long-held contemporary, rather than antiquarian, fascination with the Renaissance and its relation to art and sexuality in the modern world. The article's analysis of the continuous and complex links between past and present in Jarman's oeuvre focuses largely on his overriding concerns with the treatment of homosexuality, and the extent to which these are centralised in Edward II in particular, where Marlowe's text is significantly distorted to further the director's political agenda. In his continued interest in the transition from the medieval to the modern, Jarman, the article argues, remains central to the project of screening Elizabethan drama, even twenty years after his death.
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An amorous catfish
The films at this year's Cannes Film Festival (12-23 May 2010) were nowhere near as good as last year's, the disappointing entries including Ken Loach's \"Route Irish\", Alejandro González Iñárritu's \"Biutiful\", and Abbas Kiarostami's \"Certified Copy\". A highlight was a special presentation of Visconti's \"The Leopard\", one of the greatest of films, and Jean-Luc Godard's \"Socialism\" took the deconstruction of story to a new level. Xavier Beauvois's brilliant \"Of Gods and Men\" deservedly won the Grand Prix, while the winner of this year's Palme d'Or, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's \"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Previous Lives\", is arguably the most avant-garde film ever to have won Cannes, and was a great choice in a poor year. (Quotes from original text)
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A Very Good Year
An overview of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The author argues that due to the high overall quality of the films and, as a result of economic downturn, a reduction in the number of people with little to do with the film industry in attendance the 2009 festival was the best in the 25 years he had been attending.
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