Movies like "Broker" should cement Hirokazu Koreeda's reputation as one of the best directors working today and certainly the best from Asia and like his earlier "Shoplifters" children and crime are at its centre. There a family provided love to an unwanted child while at the same time teaching her the art of shoplifting. Here the law-breakers are a couple of guys who 'kidnap' babies left by their mothers in an orphanage baby box, then selling them on for adoption.…
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The Young Savages 1961
John Frankenhimer made his feature film debut in 1957 with "The Young Stranger" after which he returned to television for four years before coming back with "The Young Savages", another film about teenage delinquency only this time the delinquents were the 'savages' of the title, seen knifing a blind Puerto Rican boy to death in the film's opening scene. Burt Lancaster is the prosecutor whose job it is to send the killers to the electric chair despite the fact that…
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'71 2014
In 1971 I was living on the fringes of Derry's Bogside. On several occasions my home was 'collateral damage' in a number of bombings and I remember lying on the floor of my bedroom in case I might fall victim to a stray bullet from one of the gun-battles raging outside. I drank in pubs that would be bombed in time and I was on the march on Bloody Sunday. Things were bad in Derry in 1971 but they were…
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Il Posto 1961
Ermanno Olmi's IL POSTO is one of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. It is simplicity itself. A boy from the suburbs gets an office job with a large company in Milan. The work is menial and it hardly represents his life's ambition but in the passing of time he realises this might be as good as it gets. Of all Italian directors perhaps none was as good as observing the minutae of everyday life as Olmi and few could find…
