A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Essays, Multi-media Presentations
Vladimir Putin’s Valdai Speech at the XVII Meeting (Final Plenary Session) of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Moscow, 22 October 2020) – Part 1 The 17th…
French and French-language Films, Multi-media Presentations
Jean-Luc Godard, “The Image Book / Le Livre d’Image” (2018) At 84 minutes, in no way is this a long film, yet it’s far more demanding…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
“The Thom Hartmann Program: The American Destruction of Venezuela – The Real Story” (21 February 2019) In recent months, with the 2020 US Presidential year looming…
British Films, Multi-media Presentations
Ben Griffin, “The Making of a Modern British Soldier” (Veterans for Peace UK, October 2015) All you see in this video uploaded to Youtube is a…
Nora Barrows-Friedman, “Why ‘Wonder Woman’ is Banned in Lebanon” (Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2017) With every passing year, the commercial movie industry in the United States,…
Russian Foreign Ministry Meeting with Foreign Ambassadors on Skripal poisoning case (21 March 2018) For nearly all of March 2018, the world was gripped by a…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
Stephen F Cohen, “Rethinking Putin”, Annual Nation Cruise (2 December 2017) Professor Stephen Cohen is a scholar and professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s Speech to Senior Officers of the Military Academy of General Staff, Moscow (23 March 2017) On 23 March 2017, Russian Foreign…
Essays, Multi-media Presentations
Vladimir Putin’s Valdai Speech at the XIII Meeting (Final Plenary Session) of the Valdai International Discussion Club (Sochi, October 2016) As is his usual custom, Russian…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
Newsbud Spotlight with Sibel and Spiro (12 August 2016): WikiLeaks, Hillary-Gulen Intimate Ties & How Clintons Gave Birth to Mullah Gulen’s Terrorist Network In the wake…