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Studying a foreign language can sometimes make you feel like you’re fighting an uphill battle. Sifting through endless lists of vocabulary, reading lengthy paragraphs out loud, and, if you’re learning...
View ArticleBringing Bollywood To Berlin
“I’m just happy to be in Berlin. I love it. If you told me to stand up on a tourist bus and dance, I would do it.” So says Shah Rukh Khan, India’s most popular living celebrity export. “King Khan”, as...
View ArticleFrance at The Oscars
At the biggest annual Hollywood event, the real spectacles are French.
View ArticleFrench Cinema Delivers Again…Or Does It?
There seems to be a surplus of great French movies these days, and guess what… I have one more! Rust and Bone, or its French title, De Rouille et d’os, is about an unlikely couple who fall in love...
View ArticleFemen in Film
Featured at Columbia’s very own True/False Film Fest this past weekend, Kitty Green’s recent documentary Ukraine is Not a Brothel interviews the people behind the feminist protest group Femen....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Mädchen in Uniform
If The Police had been around a few decades earlier, their hit “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” would have made an excellent theme song for the 1958 German-language film Mädchen in Uniform. As in the song,...
View ArticleThe Island: Unique, Yet Strangely Familiar
Pavel Lungin’s The Island or in Russian: Oстров (2006) is the tale of a Russian holy man named Anatoly (Petyr Mamonov) who works as the stoker at a monastery on an unidentified and barren Northern...
View Article12: Modern Day Russian Propaganda or a Cultural Exposé?
Nikita Mikhalkov’s 12 (2007) is a Russian film in which a group of 12 jurors must decide the fate of an 18-year old Chechen boy (Apti Magamaev) accused of murdering his Russian stepfather, a military...
View ArticleA Film to Make You Stop and Think
Scarlett Johnasson’s most serious film to date is currently running its course in art house cinemas across the country. While some have criticised Under The Skin as being boring or not giving enough...
View Article“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Delivers
Even if you don’t know the names of actors, you will certainly recognize many faces in The Grand Budapest Hotel, which premiered February 6th at the Berlin International Film Festival and made its way...
View ArticleBerlin School Films: Counterculture in Film
Last winter I came to the brilliant conclusion that I would take a 4000 level Film Studies course in the Spring. One might say oh that sounds like fun, what do you know about film studies? Not a thing,...
View ArticleTruth on Film: Columbia’s True/False Festival
The True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri is a documentary festival that is respected and celebrated for numerous justifiable reasons. Taking place this year from March 5-8, Filmmakers and...
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