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Serbs, Goats & Srebrenica

2008-07-22 14:59:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
 
...Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed in the vicinity of Srebrenica in July 1995, and that any executions there were unprovoked and carried out in accord with a genocidal plan. Both facts and language have had to be aggressively massaged to support these claims. The political agendas served by the massacre claims were those of the Bosnian...
 
Tags: muslim, bosnian muslim struggle, bosnian muslim officials, muslim goals, bosnian muslim, bosnian muslim civilians, muslim leadership, bosnian muslim army, bosnian muslim territory
 
 
 
 
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CIFF 2008: Snow (Snijeg, 2008)

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2008-10-08 23:13:26 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Bosnian Muslims by their Serbian neighbors during 1992-1995. The superb Grbavica: Land of My Dreams , a film created by women, dealt with the postwar trauma of a Muslim woman and her daughter that helped people like me who had only heard about the Bosnian War on the news understand the deep, human consequences of this tragic conflict. Now we...
 
Tags: alma, alma encourages, najida tells alma, mother-in-law alma barely, snow, alma warms, alma terzi, almas home village, director
 
 
 
 
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It's Hard to Be Nice

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2009-01-07 08:16:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...Bosnian. Original title: Tesko je biti fin For a comic fable that relies on coincidence and medium-shots, Nice manages a surprising number of truly-magical moments. Credit goes to the actors, who are wonderful all-around, and the writers, who craft a tasty blend of tragedy and laughs that are fast becoming characteristics of Eastern...
 
Tags: nice, nice manages, hard, time, sarajevan taxi driver, small-time illegal, eastern european comedies, sasa petrovic, films pull
 
 
 
 
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2006-10-18 06:07:00 by Godmode in Soon to be a Best Movie Review Blog on the Internet
 
...Bosnian War 1992. It shows the horrific war crimes done by Bosnian Serbs, but way more disturbing is the failure of the first UN "force" sent there, the UNPROFOR. It was the soldiers job to take the most seriously wounded people from the battliefields, for example. What they should not be part of, however, were ethnic affairs. This leads to...
 
Tags: war, horrific war crimes, bosnian war, ethnic affairs, title, british soldiers, disturbingly realistic, bosnian serbs, soldiers job
 
 
 
 
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Sarajevo 2006/2008

2008-08-15 11:00:29 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
...Bosnian, though they emigrated at different times, in at least one case before the early 1990s wars) who end up working in the same Zürich café. Thanks to two superb performances by veteran Mirjana Karanović and newcomer Marija Škaričić (either of whom could have won Best Actress - it went to Škaričić in the end) and sensitive...
 
Tags: sarajevo, film, sarajevo film festivals, films, competition films, south-east european films, eight-film competition, corneliu porumboius film, festivals
 
 
 
 
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Sarajevo Snapshot 3

2008-08-18 13:47:41 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
...Bosnian history (which Im augmenting with Marko Attila Hoares recent history of the region, which is particularly helpful in the way it unpicks and demythologises the roots of its many conflicting nationalism), and just about the first thing I spotted on my arrival this time round was a number of pieces of graffiti, all by the same hand and...
 
Tags: srebrenica, srebrenica residents, radovan karadi led, bosnian, remember srebrenica, time, time round, bosnian history, karadis capture
 
 
 
 
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The Grand Canyon State of High Weirdness

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2005-08-17 04:52:50 by Editor in Cinephiliac
...Bosnian auteur Emir Kusturica's Arizona Dream (1993) goes relatively unseen in the U.S. these days, and Warner Bros. can be blamed for butchering this absurdist comedy into a shoddy straight-to-VHS release with reshuffled scenes and clocked under two hours. Winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and dedicated to Kusturica's...
 
Tags: dream, movie dream, arizona dream thrives, american dream, arizona dream, axel, axel blackmar, leo convinces axel, fish
 
 
 
 
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Collin Farrell Sickened by Role Research in Bosnia

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2008-04-08 00:57:16 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 I felt sick, Farrell told Reuters after visiting the cemetery for the victims of the massacre, regarded as Europes worst atrocity since World War Two It is hard to describe how obviously the air and the land has been poisoned by the act of killing 8,000 people in the space of a day. But you really do get the...
 
Tags: farrell, colin farrell, foreign language film, film, mans land, bosnian serb forces, europes worst atrocity, yahoo news offers, land
 
 
 
 
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Farrell, Vega, and Lee Join 'Triage'

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2008-04-10 00:00:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanovic (writer/director of the Oscar-winning No Man's Land ), is getting a cast that boasts the likes of Colin Farrell , Paz Vega , and Christopher Lee Farrell will star as a photojournalist who goes on a dangerous assignment with his colleague/best friend, but returns home without him. I imagine he is tight-lipped...
 
Tags: lee, farrell, vega, colin farrell, christopher lee, dark drama, paz vega, drama, triage
 
 
 
 
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Colin Farrell Set To Star In Triage

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2008-04-11 17:39:00 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Bosnian director Danis Tanovic, reports Variety. Paz Vega and Christopher Lee also star in the dark tale of a photojournalist who returns home following a dangerous assignment without his colleague and best friend The film will shoot on location in Ireland and at the Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante in Spain from April to June There isnt...
 
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