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B is for Bolshevism, B is for Bamako, S is for Show Trial

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2007-11-14 21:22:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...Bamako , in which Malians stage a "trial" ofwell, I'll let The Guardian 's Peter Bradshaw explain On trial is nothing less than the system of globalised capital, in the form of the World Bank and the [International Monetary Fund]. Prosecuting counsels and ferocious witnesses denounce African debt to these figures as a loan-sharking scam for...
 
Tags: orthodox church bore, orthodox church, orthodox, non-holy artifacts, holy artifacts, trial, holy, church, bamako
 
 
 
 
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BAMAKO

2007-06-08 06:04:00 by Editor in Articles
 
...Bamako follows a mock trial pitting African civil society against its debtors at the World Bank and the IMF, playing out against the backdrop of a typical village home in the African nation of Mali. Its a highly innovative and politically charged concept, but it loses its way in execution The film succeeds in conveying some sobering...
 
Tags: world, world bank, debt, debt repayment, film, film succeeds, trial, national debt, mock trial
 
 
 
 
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AFRICAN CINEMASPFA African Film Festival

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2007-12-15 14:32:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Bamako , Heremakono ( Waiting For Happiness ) , La Vie Sur Terre ( Life on Earth ) , and Rostov-Luanda ); two rarely-screened short films by Ousmane Sembene; The Forgotten Man and A Love During the War , by feminist Cameroonian director Osvalde Lewat-Hallad; Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry ( Clouds Over Conakry ) , which I recently caught at the...
 
Tags: yorker films, films, sissako films, pleuvoir sur conakry, conakry, acquarello, heartily recommend acquarello, short films, recommend
 
 
 
 
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The Elusive Close-Up

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2007-10-17 06:51:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...Bamako (2006, Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako The close-up in films from sub-Saharan Africa is a story as much of absence as of presence - an absence that results from a quite conscious aesthetic choice on the part of many directors. As with so much of the history of post-independence cinema in Africa, at least in francophone Africa, it's...
 
Tags: african, sub-saharan african film, african filmmakers, african filmmaker, african style based, filmmaker, close-up, choice, african cinema
 
 
 
 
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Film Festival Democracy

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2007-05-11 23:56:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...Bamako , named for Mali's capital and largest city, and from May 18 through September 23rd MoAD will host a photography exhibition inspired by a biennial photography festival held there. Perfect timing for Bamako 's June 1st theatrical release at the Rafael , Shattuck and Lumiere Theatres. These theatres, and others such as the Embarcadero ,...
 
Tags: film, festival film, film bamako, film movement, black film festival, festival, film seemingly critiques, international film festival, cinema
 
 
 
 
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Contestant, 2007

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2007-12-15 13:18:11 by Editor in Film Fest Journal
Rodrigo Cortes's first feature, Contestant is something like effervescent, visual prestidigitation, a self-consciously frenetic, hyperactive, insubstantial, flauntingly inconstant, and naïve satire on the perils of modern-day instant wealth, consumerism, applied economics, and state taxation. The film follows the plight of an attractive...
 
Tags: scratch film sequences, film, film school, martin, short attention span, bank, collusive financial institutions, inescapable financial quagmire, windfall taxes
 
 
 
 
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Defining Moments in Movies/Rosenbaum's 1000

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2007-12-05 20:15:00 by girish in girish
...Bamako ; Jackie reads her childrens book to Michael in Tom Noonans What Happened Was ; A kulak claims the land as his in Earth ; Freder catches his father with the false Maria in Metropolis Miguel: The mysterious little buzzing box in Belle Toujours ; Americans take photographs of the Chaplin-like emperor in The Sun ; The blind Korean...
 
Tags: rosenbaum, moments, book walks, book, childrens book, guilty omissions, horribly guilty omissions, list, rosenbaum list
 
 
 
 
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Lists, 12/28.

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2007-12-28 17:52:57 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Bamako From the Art of Memory , the year's best music, DVDs, movies and books As Dana Stevens opens up her top ten - an alphabetical list - she reminds us that Slate 's "Movie Club" will be convening next week Continued reading Lists, 12/28 Comments (0 Comments on this Entry
 
Tags: lists, fared poorly, comments, affirmative action, dana stevens, alphabetical list, movie club, annual exercise, writes andrew
 
 
 
 
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Bad Parenting, Dust, and Musical Numbers: The Best of 2007

2007-12-30 16:38:33 by Filmbrain in Like Anna Karina's Sweater
 
...Bamako , etc.), but there was nothing new that even came close to wowing me. That all changed in the past few months. In fact, I saw the top three films on my list in a span of only two days. (I've seen all three multiple times, just to be sure As has been noted elsewhere, it was quite a masculine year at the movies. The three films that can,...
 
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Godard, Bette Davis and another zombie celebrity, together at last

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2008-01-16 04:26:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...Bamako a week later The Weinstein Company has postponed the releases of Christophe Honoré's Dans Paris and Anton Corbijn's Control until mid-March. The documentary Joy Division , acquired along with Control but never released into theatres, will be available on the same day as Control , also chronicling the rise and fall of the influential...
 
Tags: documentary, documentary richard kern, march, late-march, documentary joy division, mid-march, division, set, set includes