Whilst Nova Lituania is a film which is extremely embedded in the specifics of the Lithuanian national experience in the 1930s, it also deserves a place - I think - in the growing gallery of 'non-Climate Change Climate Change' pictures. This was indeed my first response to the film that wasn't about Lithuania and came about after the scene in which Feliksas Gruodis and the Prime Minister visit the beach where "even the sea is taking our land."
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There is a thousand and one things that I could say about Pumping Iron which, to my mind, is a masterpiece of cinema. Not so much because of its cinematic merit (although it has that), but because of how rich - incidentally or otherwise - its content is. What I think essential to discuss though is how Pumping Iron articulates a specific bodily 'embodied' masculinity.
Whilst pretty much all reviews focus in on Arnold and his steamroller 'Alpha' personality, Arnold's…
