The Past: a Friend or Foe? Different Perspectives from ‘Spectre’ and ‘45 years’. Spectre- directed by Sam Mendes, UK, 2015 45 years- directed by Andrew Haigh, UK, 2015 By Franco Ferrarini, Gastroenterologist and film reviewer In the words of the French philosopher Henri Bergson: ‘The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring […]
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Khalid Ali: London Human Rights Watch Film Festival 9-18 March 2016
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The Reading Room: Jenny Downham’s ‘Unbecoming’
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Take Me With You: the Museum of Friendship, Remembrance and Loss
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The Reading Room: Clive James’s ‘Sentenced to Life’
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Cinema of splendour: Reporting from Dubai international Film Festival (DIFF) 2015
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