Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan

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BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

November 18, 2016 | By

The initial impression from the poster art and compacted summaries is that The Most Beautiful Wife is a sleazy tale of a child bride or an illicit relationship between a teen and an older man, but Damiano Damiani’s film is a thinly veiled bio-drama of Franca Viola…

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Podcast Interview with Age of Consequences Director Jared Scott

Podcast Interview with Age of Consequences Director Jared Scott

November 17, 2016 | By

Review of the provocative climate change doc The Age of Consequences + Podcast Interview with Director Jared Scott.

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Film: Age of Consequences, The (2016)

Film: Age of Consequences, The (2016)

November 17, 2016 | By

Ostensibly a documentary on climate change, The Age of Consequences augments the rallying cry for proactive and preventative actions by focusing on former military officials who’ve used their experiences in combat and in war-torn regions to draw correlations between radical changes in climate and civil wars in regions that have become arid and infertile…

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Podcast on BSV 1172’s World Premiere + Tom Roston & Norman Wilner at Bay Street Video, Pt.1

Podcast on BSV 1172’s World Premiere + Tom Roston & Norman Wilner at Bay Street Video, Pt.1

November 14, 2016 | By

New podcast featuring thoughts on the World Premiere at SDUFF of my experimental doc BSV 1172 + Part One of a conversation with I Lost It at the Video Store author Tom Roston & NOW magazine’s Norman Wilner, who discussed video store culture in-store at Bay Street Video back in May.

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WWII Dramas: Anthropoid (2016) + Eye of the Needle (1981)

WWII Dramas: Anthropoid (2016) + Eye of the Needle (1981)

November 8, 2016 | By

Reviews of two underrated WWII dramas, Sean Ellis’ docu-drama Anthropoid (2016) from Universal + Richard Marquand’s vivid film version of Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle (1981) from Twilight Time, and from the archives, Ellis’ Cashback (2006) + The Broken (2008)

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