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Posted On:  Oct 1, 2006

  From the Journals of Jean Seberg

Media: film Who: directed by Mark Rappaport When: 1995 What: Rappaport explores gender politics, representations of women, and our relationship to the image through an extremely self reflexive, semi-fictional character - Jean Seberg as she would speak were she still alive. Experimental but...... [view]

Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2006

  Hotel Rwanda

Media: DVD Who: directed by Terry George When: 2004 What: Based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan hotel manager who housed Tutsis refugees during a violent genocide project which occured in 1994. Links: official site , CBC article regarding the representation of genocide ,...... [view]

Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Aug 12, 2006

  Chocolat (1988)

What: film Who: filmmaker Claire Denis When: 1988 What: Not to be confused with the 2000 release starring Johnny Depp, Denis' semi-autobiographical film features a young French woman who returns to her birthplace, Cameroon, to connect with her past. What follows is a thoughtful, sensitive and...... [view]

Posted By:  esum
Posted On:  Aug 3, 2006

  A Question of Silence

Media: film Who: Dutch filmmaker Marlene Gorris When: 1982 What: A brave and fascinating film which begins with an impromptu murder of a male shopkeeper by a group of women, all strangers to each other. After their arrest, a female psychiatrist is enlisted to explain the behaviour of the...... [view]

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Posted On:  Jun 23, 2006

  Black Rain

Media: VHS (avail on DVD) Who: directed by Shohei Imamura, new wave auteur When: 1989 What: Adapted from the novel by Masuji Ibuse, this haunting, subtle, black and white film details the lives of a family of survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. Trapped in an almost limbo state between health...... [view]

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