MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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2016 Film round-up
Star columnists run through what has — and hasn’t —impressed them on the big screen in the last 12 months
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
ALAN FRANK
CELEBRATED Polish-Russian pioneer film-maker Dziga Vertov was impressively ahead of his time when, over 80 years ago, he stated: “Film drama is the opium of the people”.
That doesn’t just apply to mere “people.”
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Rita Di Santo speaks to Hungarian director LASZLO NEMES about his new film, a portrait of the French Resistance leader and hero, Jean Moulin
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