La Graine et le Mulet (Couscous with Mullet): Food and Family Politics

Originally published on the 27th September 2011. Couscous with Mullet, or “The Secret of the Grain” is a movie of

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Time according to Theo Angelopoulos – Ο Χρονος κατα τον Θοδωρο Αγγελοπουλο

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If

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Okuribito (Departures) – A film of Yojiro Takita

“Departures” is a very special film of Yojiro Takita, about Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist with a Tokyo orchestra, who loses

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Alain Resnais' and Marguerite Duras' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"

‘I remember Hiroshima’ ‘You remember nothing’ “You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.” ” I saw everything. Everything.” It has been

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1001 Ways to Die – (6) Peter Falk, American Actor

Peter Falk, one of my favorite actors, died at the age of 83 on 23rd June 2011. He  died peacefully

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Wings of desire – Der Himmel uber Berlin – A film by Wim Wenders (1987)

From the sea of Paros to the sky over Berlin! Today I want to reminisce on the wonderful film “Wings

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La Dolce Vita – Fellini's Masterpiece

“The film first impinged on the world at large in February 1960 when foreign journalists reported back to their readers,

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Sweet Movie (1974) – A film by Dusan Makavejev

Now that memory lane is open, and thanks to the slow boat ride to Vienna, I bring back to my

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