SILENCE TRIES TOEXPLAIN HOW JAPAN RESISTED CHRISTIANITY Portuguese Catholics introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549, when Francis Xavier brought three Japanese Catholic converts from India, seeking to start a church in Nagasaki. Today only 1 percent of Japanese are Christians. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Silence is based on an historical novel by Shusako Endo that begins in the […]
SILENCE TRIES TOEXPLAIN HOW JAPAN RESISTED CHRISTIANITY Portuguese Catholics introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549, when Francis Xavier brought three Japanese Catholic converts from India, seeking to start a church in Nagasaki. Today only 1 percent of Japanese are Christians. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Silence is based on an historical novel by Shusako Endo that begins in the
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I, DANIEL BLAKE EXPOSES LIFE AMONG THE UNDERCLASS Director Ken Loach has done it again: He has brought to the screen a slice of life that those who live in comfort never see—but must see if they want to understand how the underclass nowadays tries to survive. The film is about a certain Daniel Blake (played
I, DANIEL BLAKE EXPOSES LIFE AMONG THE UNDERCLASS Director Ken Loach has done it again: He has brought to the screen a slice of life that those who live in comfort never see—but must see if they want to understand how the underclass nowadays tries to survive. The film is about a certain Daniel Blake (played
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BARRY IS NOT ABOUT HAPPINESS IN NEW YORK CITY After time in Honolulu, Jakarta, and Los Angeles, Barry Obama (magnificently played by Devon Terrell) hops a plane to the Big Apple on a day near his 20th birthday to go to Columbia College so he can advance intellectual pursuits. Director Vikram Gandhi seeks to explain how
BARRY IS NOT ABOUT HAPPINESS IN NEW YORK CITY After time in Honolulu, Jakarta, and Los Angeles, Barry Obama (magnificently played by Devon Terrell) hops a plane to the Big Apple on a day near his 20th birthday to go to Columbia College so he can advance intellectual pursuits. Director Vikram Gandhi seeks to explain how
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NERUDA IS POETRY WITHIN POETRY In 1945, Chile’s famous poet Pablo Neruda (played by Luis Gnecco) was elected Senator, choosing to run as a member of the Communist Party, which he joined after the election. The following year, Gabriel González Videla asked Neruda to be his campaign manager. But when the Cold War and McCarthyism sweeps
LAND OF MINE SHOWS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN A POSITIVE LIGHT After Germany surrendered in 1945, the German people not only experienced a country in rubbles but left 1,500,000 land mines dotting the West Coast of Denmark, as the Nazis thought that the Allied invasion would come from there. The Danes, while marching German POWs out of
LAND OF MINE SHOWS GERMAN SOLDIERS IN A POSITIVE LIGHT After Germany surrendered in 1945, the German people not only experienced a country in rubbles but left 1,500,000 land mines dotting the West Coast of Denmark, as the Nazis thought that the Allied invasion would come from there. The Danes, while marching German POWs out of
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BOOZE IT UP BEFORE SEEING WHISKY TANGO FOXTROT The pace of Whisky Tango Foxtrot is so fast that instead of an exposé of the perils of a female war correspondent, filmviewers witness how Kim Baker (played by Tina Fey) takes a break in a loud night club, is repeatedly seduced, loses her boyfriend, and in effect is more
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