...le grand jeu...

The opening scenes of Le Grand Jeu with its fast cars and its beautiful modernist apartment (reminiscent of the designs of the Irish born architect Eileen Grey) epitomise the glamour and fast living lifestyle of 1930s France. The character of Florence played by Marie Bell) with her modern hair style and beautiful modern clothes evokes the image of the “new woman” found in the paintings of artists such as Tamara De Lempicka – the woman who is bold, drives fast cars, wears fashionable clothes and most of all loves the wealth and the decadence that was synonymous with the French capital of the 1930s. However, it is fast cars and the “new woman” which results in the French Foreign Legion for the character of Pierre Martel/Pierre Muller.. Read full review

The DVD was released in UK on the 21 June 2010 by Eureka Video.

Wizards

Directed by Ralph Bakshi

...wizards...

Animation’s current success with film goers has seen the reappearance of Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards, which had its U.K release on DVD and Blu-Ray on 24 May 2010, (see the following website www.eurekavideo.co.uk)

Bakshi worked for the TerryToon studios and on the Spiderman’s series in the 1960s, and made the animation feature Wizards in 1977. At the time, it was a financial success. Often misunderstood by critics and by the ever powerful studios, Bakshi has become a legend in animation. He has been cited as the animator’s animator. Read full review

Petropolis

Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands, a film by Peter Mettler

...the tar sands...

Petropolis is a film that was commissioned by Greenpeace and depicts the destruction of the Boreal forest in northern Canada. Beneath the Boreal Forest lies an abundance of plant life that has been compressing for some 200 million years. That ancient life is now the world’s largest oil reserve, now known as the tar sands, which consist mainly of sand and the crude oil known as bitumen- Read full review

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The Milk of Sorrow

Directed by Claudia Llosa

Milk Of Sorrow

The Milk Of Sorrow is a film directed by Claudia Llosa and has its UK release on the 30^th April 2010. It is a story that has parallels in the lives of indigenous populations the world over who have suffered from the terrors of political and military conflict. It also expresses the tensions between the old and the new, the rural and urban, adult and child, the haves and the have-nots. The film is set in Lima, Peru. Read full review

Nehrain Khalifa, 2010