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BEAST

August 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BEAST

BEAST is a surprisingly heartwarming story about a rogue lion rampaging his way across the African savannah after poachers slaughter his pride.

Tagged With: Africa, dead mother, guilt, poachers, rogue lion, tracking shots

BLACK PANTHER

February 18, 2018 By 3 Comments

BLACK PANTHER

BLACK PANTHER is the standard by which all other superhero movies this year will be measured.  Maybe this decade.  Showcasing the expected show-stopping special effects, a rich mythology from the Marvel comic on which it is based, and plenty of rousing action that is both imaginative (weaponized rhinoceroses) and genuinely suspenseful, it gets the most… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, Marvel Universe, MCU, superhero, vibranium, Wakanda, weaponized rhioseros

FIRE AT SEA (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi Interview

December 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment

FIRE AT SEA  (Fuocoammare) — Gianfranco Rosi Interview

Gianfranco Rosi had intended to make a 10-minute film about the refugees who find themselves on the island of Lampedusa, but once there, he quickly decided that the complexity of the situation demanded more. Hence FIRE AT SEA, short-listed for an Oscar™ and otherwise garnering praise for its sensitive, incisive look at how refugees and… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, Italy, Lampedusa, Libya, Mediterranean, Operation Mare Nostrum, Refugees, sea rescue, Syria, turkey

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

July 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Credit where it’s due.  THE LEGEND OF TARZAN doesn’t get everything wrong. For one, It has the virtue of addressing why a perfectly capable, perfectly intelligent black man with a Ph.D., George Washington Harris (Samuel L. Jackson as an actual historical character) needs a white man, that would be Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård)… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, Africa, Belgian Congo, book to screen, Congo, diamonds, diplomatic mission, hippopotamus, King Leopold, ostriches, slavery, Tarzan

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

August 26, 2015 By 1 Comment

Hubert Sauper Explores the Irony of WE COME AS FRIENDS

I am rarely left speechless when conducting an interview, but on August 19, 2015, when WE COME AS FRIEND’s Hubert Sauper told me about how a group of Christian missionaries from Texas had convinced their Sudanese converts about the truth of the resurrection, I all but collapsed in bemused disbelief. It’s towards the end of… Read More »

Tagged With: Adam Hochschild, Africa, Afrique Noir, Anuradha Mittal, Barney Broomfield, Belgian Congo, Chinese oil companies, Chinese oil fields, Christian missionaries, colonialism, director, documentary, globalization, Hubert Sauper, King Leopold, King Leopold’s Ghost, land grabs, Mel Gibson, North Sudan, OaklandInstitute.org, oil business, phallic airplane, Ronald Reagan, slave trade, solar-powered bible, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudanese elections, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, talking bible, The Oakland Institute, U.N. Peacekeeping Forces, United Nations

The Power of VIRUNGA with Director Orlando Von Einsiedel, subjects Emmanuel De Merode and Andrea Baume

December 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The Power of VIRUNGA with Director Orlando Von Einsiedel, subjects Emmanuel De Merode  and Andrea Baume

Emmanuel De Merode is a prince literally and figuratively. He holds the title courtesy of the Belgian government as a descendant of that country’s nobility. He has also dedicated his life to preserving the wildlife and wild areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, moving there from his home in Kenya to become the director… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, Belgium, Congo, Congolese civil war, conservation, government corruption, King Leopold, mountain gorillas, oil drilling, SOCO, Virunga

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

The difference in outlooks between Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) and his late wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), can be summed up in a conversation they have while driving on the squalid streets of Kenya’s capital where Justin, a British diplomat, is stationed. Tessa wants him to stop and give a lift back to her village to… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, book to film, cinema, colonialism, drama, film, foreign service, global responsibility, Hugh Jackman, human rights, metaphysical love story, movie, narrative, Oxford, politics, Rachel Weisz, THE FOUNTAIN, time travel

THE CONSTANT GARDENER — DVD

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE CONSTANT GARDENER is a thriller with a conscience and a romantic streak, both equally memorable. The DVD of it is memorable for what it doesn’t have: a commentary track. One could speculate endlessly about why that is, or one can move on to the bonus features that are available, including the usual deleted and… Read More »

Tagged With: Africa, deleted scenes, DVD review, espionage

TSOTSI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TSOTSI

With TSOTSI, Gavin Hood has taken the liberty of updating the timeframe of South African writer Athol Fugard’s only novel. In doing so, the politics of apartheid that spurred the story in the book has given way to the tragedy of AIDS. Changing the circumstances of its title character’s orphaning, though, doesn’t affect the nature of… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

SOMETIMES IN APRIL

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

In SOMETIMES IN APRIL, Raoul Peck (Lumumba), has taken the specific story of the Rwandan genocide of April 1994 and made manifest the universal implications of the events. There is plenty of culpability to go around and Peck is not shy about pointing fingers, but he is also not shy about pointing up the greater… Read More »

Tagged With: 20th-century history, Africa, based on a true story, cinema, drama, film, genocide, HBO, Human Rights Watch, Hutu, Idris Elba, movie, narrative, Raoul Peck, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, world history

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