Learning From Pristina
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 24-29 October, Part I
I worked in the former Yugoslavia as a journalist during the civil war in the 1990s.(...)
Kosovo Theatre Showcase 24-29 October, Part I
I worked in the former Yugoslavia as a journalist during the civil war in the 1990s.(...)
Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is hard to watch but easy to rewatch.(...)
Hiroshima mon amour After Oppenheimer
Hiroshima, mon amour, the 1959 collaboration between director Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras, explores the limits of feeling with profoundly disturbing results.(...)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun is a cinematic speedball, tugging the heart in opposite directions until it cannot bear the strain.(...)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s superb 2006 film The Lives of Others looks back at the final years of East Germany.(...)
The Battleground’s Fall Books List
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny probably won’t make a lasting impression on people not already invested in its titular character.(...)