Credo che la satira se fatta con intelligenza possa anche far sorridere, ma questo è un raro esempio di ignoranza… Bobby Sands film wins three awards at major film festival Is there someone who can explain me how people can be so idiot?
Continua a leggere“I want to show what it was like to see, hear, smell and touch in the H-block in 1981. What I want to convey is something you cannot find in books or archives: the ordinary and extraordinary, of life in this prison. Hunger for me has contemporary resonance. The body as a site of political warfare is becoming a more
Continua a leggereSarà Hunger ad inaugurare la sezione Un Certain Regard al Festival del Cinema di Cannes. La proiezione è prevista da programma giovedì 15 maggio. In attesa delle prime recensioni, vi segnalo tre links dove è possibile visionare la locandina ed alcune immagini tratte dal film. Festival di Cannes Becker International Castlerock (è richiesta la registrazione per visualizzare le immagini ingrandite)
Continua a leggereVerrà presentato al Festival di Cannes (14-25 maggio 2008), il film che narra le ultime 6 settimane di vita di Bobby Sands. Il film, opera prima di Steve Mcqueen alla regia, narrerà i giorni precedenti la morte di Bobby subito dopo essere stato eletto membro del Parlamento. Di seguito un articolo del 30 aprile tratto dall’Irish Independent. Film on Sands’
Continua a leggereFear Dorcha Anthony McIntyre • 24 February 2008 I reached across and kissed him on the forehead. His skin was cold to the touch. I could feel his brow but he was beyond sensing my lips. Fear Dorcha had died the previous evening just after ten o’clock. Now he lay in his coffin, his body draped in the Irish tricolour,
Continua a leggereThe former hunger striker and IRA commander Brendan Hughes has died in hospital. The 59-year-old Belfast man was taken into hospital last week after becoming critically ill. His family said he passed away on Saturday night. He was the “officer commanding” IRA prisoners in the Maze jail and ordered a dirty protest and later led the first republican hunger strike
Continua a leggereModern Times It is said we live in modern times, In the civilised year of ‘seventy nine, But when I look around, all I see, Is modern torture, pain, and hypocrisy. In modern times little children die, They starve to death, but who dares ask why? And little girls without attire, Run screaming, napalmed, through the night afire. And while
Continua a leggere“They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.” Bobby Sands
Continua a leggereI am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because l am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land. I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of
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