by Andrea | Feb 13, 2020 | Dan, Film
‘Ida’ The film ‘Ida’ (2013) caught me by surprise. This BAFTA and Oscar winner is filmmaker Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski’s tenth film, by my estimate. It is a quiet, stark film that touches on themes that matter to me: healing, justice, moving on from...
by Andrea | Jan 30, 2020 | Andrea, Articles
Dino Bridge We watched this documentary once, called the ‘Six Most Amazing Bridges in History’, or something like that. It showed how breakthrough technology in constructing one small bridge more than 200 years ago has enabled one game-changing bridge after another to...
by Andrea | Mar 25, 2019 | Books, Nat
The Shadow of the Wind Who could not be drawn into Zafon’s atmospheric story with its dramatic opening chapter? Ten year-old Daniel is led through misty Barcelona streets in the early hours of the morning by his father. “Daniel, you mustn’t tell anyone what...
by Andrea | Mar 11, 2019 | Film, Rinus
History and Highlights of Korean Film I dedicated last week to catching up on Korean film. The early film history of Korea from 1910 to 1945 was heavily dominated by Korea being under Japanese rule. Although there are some fragments left from the silent era and the...
by Andrea | Feb 28, 2019 | Film, Resources, Rinus
How to Watch a Film – Entering New Worlds Italian film director Alice Rohrwacher talks of how, as a child, she used to fall asleep in the car on long family trips. She recalls that when she woke up, she was met by a completely different world from the one she...
