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DVD reviews: Freedom fighters, Cossacks and the addled rich

Posted in New on DVD, tagged , , , , , , on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“OUTSIDE THE LAW” (Now available) The latest from French/Algerian filmmaker Rachid  Bouchareb takes the same three Algerian brothers featured in his sweeping WW2 yarn “Days of Glory” and plops them down in post-war France, where they become urban terrorists on behalf of their homeland’s independence movement. The oldest, Messaoud (Roschdy Zem), is a former French [...]

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DVD review: Brilliant film, maddening coverup

Posted in Art house fare, New on DVD, tagged , , , , on July 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“OF GODS AND MEN” (Now available) Terrific movie. Infuriating DVD packaging. “Of Gods and Men” is one of the year’s finest films. This French release, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes last year, centers on the monks of the Tibehirine Monastery in Algeria’s Atlas Mountains, who in 1996 were abducted by Islamic revolutionaries [...]

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