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Manuscripts Don't Burn 2013
It can be argued that political filmmaking in Iran is one of the bravest traditions of cinema on earth – the perilous act of critiquing a government that routinely silences such dissident voices through a mixture of imprisonments and executions. Filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested in 2010 for the creation of such films and sentenced to 6 years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking (though this sentence was later softened due to international outcry). Likewise, another filmmaker who…
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El Sur 1983
After seeing Spirit of the Beehive I was really looking forward to El Sur though I was skeptical that it could be as great as the former... It turns out I was mistaken; if anything I'm tempted to say (though I should probably allow myself some time to digest the film) that it may be better than Spirit of the Beehive.
Never before have I seen a film handle a father-daughter relationship as beautifully as Victor Erice achieves in El…
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