DVD: Comrades in Dreams (2006)
In Comrades in Arms, director Uli Gaulke intercuts somewhat fly-on-the-wall documentary segments of four disparate film exhibitors: a film club in Chong-Ri, North Korea, managed by two longtime best friends…
Tag: North Korea
Film: Great North Korean Picture Show, The (2012)
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / G . Film: Very Good / DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Documentary / North Korea / Hot Docs 2013 Synopsis: Two students and a top director in North Korea are the focus of this unusually candid documentary. Special Features: […]
Fascist Visions
A salute to fascism on screen – via The Hunger Games (Alliance / Lionsgate) and Anchor Bay’s Battle Royale: The Complete Collection – plus new images of North Korea’s Ruygyong Hotel, aka The Hotel of Doom, aka the Ugliest Building in the World!
Christmas Jeers
Editor’s Blog on the plight of Jafar Panahi, and a DVD review of the 2009 documentary Kimjongilia (Mongrel / Lorber) of life under a big fist…
DVD: Kimjongilia (2009)
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / J to L . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Good Label: Mongrel (Canada) / Lorber (U.S.) / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: October 12, 2010 Genre: Documentary / North Korea Synopsis: Oral chronicles by refugees of life in North Korea under the fist of Kim Il […]
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