“BUMPY” KANAHELE STARS IN ALOHA In 1993, “Bumpy” Kanahele organized an occupation at a famous tourist beach, protesting the illegality of America’s possession of Hawaiʽi, which was annexed by military force without a plebiscite. After fifteen months, Governor John Waiheʽe offered his group a 45-acre parcel if the protesters would leave. They agreed and received […]
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GOOD KILL ESTABLISHES THE TITLE AS AN OXYMORON Few anti-war films about Vietnam occurred until after the American military pulled out. The same appears to be the case with the “war on terror,” which (according to one line in the film) is doing as well as the “war on drugs.” But Good Kill, an anti-war
CAMBODIANS ABANDON AMNESIA IN DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN A documentary of the musical history of Cambodia from 1954 to 1975, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten traces the country’s music stars until most die in the Pol Pot era. Directed by John Pirozzi, Cambodia is depicted as a musical capital of Southeast Asia, with Prince Sihanouk as
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CAMBODIANS ABANDON AMNESIA IN DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN A documentary of the musical history of Cambodia from 1954 to 1975, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten traces the country’s music stars until most die in the Pol Pot era. Directed by John Pirozzi, Cambodia is depicted as a musical capital of Southeast Asia, with Prince Sihanouk as
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SKIN TRADE EXPLOITS THE SKIN TRADE Titles at the end indicate that 20-30 million persons, 98 percent of whom are women and children, are involved in human trafficking each year. Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, Skin Trade involves efforts to free women captives and eliminate an small army involved in the trade. The head gangster is
NOBLE GOES FROM IRELAND TO VIETNAM AND HITS THE JACKPOT A biopic of Christina Nobel (played by Deirdre O’Kane), the film Nobel features an Irishwoman from her life as a toddler in 1955 to her arrival in Vietnam during 1989 and beyond in a quest to save children from much of the same destitution that
NOBLE GOES FROM IRELAND TO VIETNAM AND HITS THE JACKPOT A biopic of Christina Nobel (played by Deirdre O’Kane), the film Nobel features an Irishwoman from her life as a toddler in 1955 to her arrival in Vietnam during 1989 and beyond in a quest to save children from much of the same destitution that
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Meanwhile, Hungary has not ratified the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals of 1987, unlike neighboring Bulgaria and Romania. The film White God (Fehér isten) implicitly implores the county to do, thereby joining most of the rest of Europe. The term “white god” is presumably selected to challenge the view that Hungarians act
FAR FROM MEN IS ALSO ABOUT SEEKING NEUTRALITY IN A WAR ZONE Albert Camus’s short story L’Hôte has now been brought to the screen. Daru (played by Viggo Mortensen) is a Spanish settler born in Algeria who was a major on the side of France in World War II. Having lost his wife in 1944,
TANGERINES IS AN ANTI-WAR FILM ABOUT NEUTRALS During the 19th century many Estonians took up residence in Georgia. They were caught up as neutral parties in war when Vladimir Putin decided to support Russians living in Georgia by financing wars in 1992 and 2006 on behalf of the self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia