http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com The World Affairs Blog Network Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:35:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FPA Russia blogger Vadim Nikitin tackles that question in his latest blog entry: "In the 1990s, the Russian film landscape had come to resemble something straight out of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, with stray dogs wandering through Mosfilm studios in Eisenstein’s footprints and actors and directors stumbling around a menacing no man’s land ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/18/is-russian-cinema-dead/ This film is visually stunning. Filmed in 70mm in 24 countries, it is one long montage of scenes. The viewer has to be in the right frame of mind to watch “Baraka” – there is no dialogue or narration. All of the images are set to New Age music. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/XO1nSVy8q8I" width="425" height="350" ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/13/baraka-1992/ This movie is a snooze fest. Which is unfortunate because the subject, Amma, is fascinating. What director Jan Kounen appears to have tried is to provide a documentary about the life of Amma, a mahatma in India. However, it falls short somehow. There are long periods of film showing the thousands of people ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/11/06/darshan-the-embrace-2006/ Right from the start this film draws the audience in. It is a movie about a young Honduran woman named Sayra who rides on top of trains hoping to reach Texas through Mexico. It is also about Casper (a.k.a. Willy), a Mexican gang member in trouble who meets up with Sayra along ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/30/sin-nombre-2009/ In the summer of 2006, southern Lebanon was under a barrage of Israeli firepower. The war was nominally between Israel and Hezbollah operating out of Lebanon. What this film does – and does well – is to humanize this war story. It shows a woman, Zeina, who has ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/25/under-the-bombs-2007/ “Be a patriot – kill a priest.” That was a bumper sticker seen on vehicles run by the national guard in El Salvador in the 1980s. The reason is that the entrenched elite of that country believed that Roman Catholic priests were becoming radicalized and increasingly political and who therefore threatened their ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/20/romero-1989/ The story behind this documentary is fascinating. Several missionaries travel to eastern Ecuador in the 1950s and make contact with the Waodani, a Stone Age tribe. Five of the missionaries – all men – are brutally murdered by the Waodani. What happens next is fairly unbelievable: the wives ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/10/09/beyond-the-gates-of-splendor-2004/ Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is lionized – and rightfully so –in this documentary. The film follows him from his life in a German concentration camp until his death in 2005. It shows how relentless he was in tracking down war criminals and how scrupulous he was. While many ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/28/i-have-never-forgotten-you-2007/ History was made tonight. With screenings in more than 550 cinemas in more than 45 countries, the global premiere of “The Age of Stupid” has made a Guinness world record. It would appear that this film might pack less of a wallop because of former United States Vice President Al Gore’s “An ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/21/the-age-of-stupid-2009/ This film is being shown in more than 550 cinemas and more than 45 countries on September 21 and September 22. Go here to see if it's playing near you. 'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day ... http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/09/17/the-age-of-stupid-preview/