Film & TV
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments
Film">Review: Patience (After Sebald) Film
A newly released documentary, Patience (After Sebald), retraces writer WG Sebald's steps through the Suffolk countryside as detailed in his magnum opus, The Rings of Saturn. Ceasefire's Joe Lloyd reviews.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Monday, November 28, 2011 18:06 - 4 Comments
Film">Review: The Crisis of Civilization Film
The Crisis of Civilization, due to premiere tomorrow, is a documentary film that is remarkably pleasant to watch considering its subject matter: the looming destruction of civilisation as we know it. Hicham Yezza reviews.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:54 - 1 Comment
Film">Review: 1395 Days Without Red Film
Douglas Brennan reviews Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala's modern silent film '1395 Days Without Red', which explores the conditions of life during the Sarajevo siege through an innovative combination of repetition, individuation, and Tchaikovsky.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 16, 2011 17:35 - 1 Comment
Film">Review: Blood in the Mobile Film
This week sees the release of 'Blood in the Mobile', a powerful documentary tackling the role of 'blood minerals' in the Congo's civil war, the world's "biggest conflict since WWII". Ceasefire associate editor Usayd Younis takes a look.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, September 4, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments
Film Review The Creators: When Art and Activism Collide in South Africa
Hana Riaz encounters politics, culture and the ghosts of South Africa's past in her review of 'The Creators'.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, June 12, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Film ‘Our Generation’
"Attending the opening night ... was not the red carpet experience one may hope for at a film premiere; but then for a documentary about the persecution of Australia’s Aboriginal people, a glamorous outfit and a dozen photographers would hardly have been appropriate". Ceasefire's Melanie Scagliarini reviews 'Our Generation'.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Monday, April 11, 2011 0:00 - 6 Comments
Arts & Culture | Remembering Juliano
A week ago, celebrated Israeli-Palestinian director and actor Juliano Mer-Khamis was shot dead by gunmen outside his Freedom Theatre in Jenin. In a moving, personal tribute, Nihal Rabbani, a friend and colleague, recounts her memories of him.
Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, March 5, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments
Media “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
It's now 40 years since Gill-Scot Heron's iconic cry of defiance. Ceasefire associate editor Usayd Younis says the current rise in popular dissent, armed with new technologies, is now changing everything, not least TV itself.
Arts & Culture, Features, Film & TV - Saturday, August 28, 2010 18:23 - 0 Comments
Film Review: The Infidel
The Infidel is a comedy whose subject matter includes Muslims, Jews, cultural identity, religious intolerance, clerical hypocrisy, political islamism, violent extremism, anti-semitism, media mendacity and plain old-fashioned racism. Upon its release on DVD earlier this month, Hicham Yezza reviews it.
Arts & Culture, Features, Film & TV - Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:56 - 23 Comments
Why Avatar is a truly dangerous film
Avatar is widely seen as a 'progressive' film. In fact, argues Hana Shams Riazuddin, it is a classic tale of popular Orientalist discourses on colonialism - where the natives must rely on the white anthropologist to become fully human.
