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THE MILL AND THE CROSS
Polish director Lech Majewski’s narrative is the story of how Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his masterpiece ‘The Way to Calvary’ in 1564. It relates of the painstaking way that Bruegel took with every minute detail of all the many characters and action that take place on his canvas. What few words are spoken are…
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THE TIME THAT REMAINS
The movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then. Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces…
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PAUL GOODMAN CHANGED MY LIFE
I can hardly claim the authorship of this title because I must confess that before I sat down to watch this documentary, I have never even heard of Paul Goodman. Ooops! But I know now that he was man of many gifts; he was a critic, sociologist, philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, practicing psychiatrist, an…
