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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.
Columns, Modern Times - Tuesday, August 10, 2010 13:39 - 10 Comments
Modern Times: Meet the Amish
Idiosyncratic, quixotic, or just plain sinister? the Amish community has been, almost since its inception, the butt of jokes and the subject of fascination tinged with hostility from the mainstream. And yet, considering the giant spiritual malaise afflicting the west of the twenty first century, doesn't the frequent smugness towards the Amish seem rather misplaced? A recent Channel 4 programme makes Corin Faife consider what the Amish philosophy of life can teach us about the modern world, and ourselves.
