Directors: Ross Kaufmann and Zana Briski The film: The title of Ross Kaufmann and Zana Briski's documentary - revolving around a group of children living in Calcutta's red-light district - might conjure images of gloom or depravity. But Born into Brothels dwells on neither. Rather than play up the sentimentalism that fuels many films about non-western underclasses - an approach that dehumanises subjects as merely a mass of unrecognisable and unrefined faces - Kaufmann and Briski find dignity, vigour and intellect in these unfortunate Indian children and present them as flesh-and-blood human beings. Read More...
The principal focus of Civil War is war-weary photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst) and her writer colleague Joel (Wagner Moura), who pick up an aspiring young photographer named Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and a veteran journalist named Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson) as they set off on a dangerous journey to the White House, where the US president is besieged by encroaching rebel forces.Carolyn Cole, who has covered national and international news for the Los Angeles Times since 1994, has seen Civil War and agreed to answer questions about what the film gets right – and wrong – in its depiction of journalists operating in perilous conditions. Read More...
Under Malaysia’s system of constitutional monarchy system, each of the nine hereditary rulers is given a chance to be king for five years under a rotation system.
And more than a decade ago, 41-year-old Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra, the Kelantan princes’ younger brother who was stripped of his title in 2010, attracted headlines over his marriage with Indonesian-American model Manohara Odelia Pinot, who was just 16 years old at the time of their marriage in 2009. Read More...