Presque vu XXXIX

The German film, The Lives of Others has been released as a DVD. Paul Cantor has an extensive review of it in Christianity Today, claiming it to be the best feature film début by a director since Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. My own review is here.
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Do read Alex Witchel’s piece in The New York Times. [...]



The following is extracted from an article by Peter Dale Scott in Brick Magazine (number 78):
The prequel is a quotation from Adam Michnik:
I remember that when I once was arrested the police found a box of treatises by Milosz in my apartment. And during the interrogation the officer was saying, ‘Mr Michnik, do you believe [...]






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