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Three Films

The Class (Entre Les Murs) - a quite excellent, intensely realist portrayal of a teacher up against a tough class. Won the Palm d’Or.
Mamma Mia - could only watch about 15 minutes of this. It seemed dreadful. Stupid beyond words, but not even entertainingly so. And horrible songs. Not evern Meryl Streep could save this […]

Posted 04 March 2009 † John Mansfield § ‡ Comments (0) °

MyPoliceState

I re-watched The Lives of Others on DVD on the weekend. Things are never as good as they were at the cinema, but this is still a great depiction of the insidious, creepy police state in East Germany.

A friend noticed this fascinating irony: in the “free West”, twenty years later, many people are now quite […]

Posted 25 February 2009 † John Mansfield § ‡ Comments (0) °