Foreign Film Review: Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is one of those films you’ll always find in any list of the top films ever made/films you should watch before you die etc.  Made in 1925 under the auspices of the Soviet Central Committee to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 revolution, the film was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.  It […]

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Foreign Film Review: Bandit Queen

Bandit Queen is not an easy film to watch.  I first saw it at its London Premiere as part of the London Film Festival back in the 1990s, and was blown away by it.  It’s a scathing condemnation of the Indian caste system and, in particular, the way low caste women are treated within this […]

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