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A City Defeated and Slaughtered
City of Life and Death Before the Nazis bombed Rotterdam, flattened Minsk, besieged Leningrad, burned Warsaw, and incinerated millions of Jews, Nanjing showed the world what World War II would look...
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Berlinale Diary 1 – Ai Weiwei: Who’s Sorry Now?
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry dir. Alison Klayman, at the Berlin International Film Festival Fresh from Sundance, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry has made its European debut at the Berlin International Film Festival....
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Boxing – The Five-Year Plan?
China Heavyweight, dir. Yung Chang, China/Canada, 2012, 89 minutes At IFC Center, New York And you thought the only China heavyweight was Ai Wei Wei. Some people are lucky. Most are not. The...
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Ai Weiwei – New Film, No Passport
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry dir. Alison Klayman, USA, 2012, 91 minutes We’ve seen it with the Mafia in this country. When you can’t nail someone for the crime that he’s committed (or not committed), charge...
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NDNF –‘We Come As Friends’ – With Friends Like These….
Clothe the Naked, Pump the Oil, Wear the Cowboy Hat We Come As Friends Dir. Hubert Sauper, France/Austria, 2014, 105 minutes At New Directors New Films Saturday, March 22, 3:45pm – Film Society of...
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Ai Weiwei – Make Those 15 Minutes Last
House Arrest as Talk Show Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case Dir. Andreas Johnsen, Denmark, 86 minutes, 2013 At the IFC Center, New York Ai Weiwei is the gift that keeps on giving, which has to be annoying for...
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From Camden to NYFF, On the Rails –‘The Iron Ministry’
Standing Room Only The Iron Ministry Dir. J. P. Sniadecki, USA, 2014, 82 minutes As they say (or Patrice Chereau said), everyone who doesn’t love me can take the train. In China, it seems that...
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‘A Fool’ – Banned in China – NYAFF
The Man Who Slept with the Goats — Who’s the Fool? A Fool Chen Jianbin, China, 2015, 103 minutes At the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), Lincoln Center, through July 8 Nothing like adversity...
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DocWatch –‘We Come As Friends’
From the Front Lines of Resource Rape We Come As Friends dir. Hubert Sauper, France/Austria, 110 minutes Hubert Sauper (via the BBC) brings We Come As Friends to US screens at a moment when Sudan has...
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