Potohar
Please welcome Kyla Pasha as our newly minted regular columnist. Her column will feature both poetry and articles, with South Asia being the focus of the latter. - The Management. 1. The rivers are...
Category: Arts & Literature
London Film Festival: Jim Jarmusch’s “The Limits of Control”
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. In Jim Jarmusch's latest, Issach De Bankole’s Lone Man is a god carved from onyx and iron. Bullets and knives,...
Vlad Troitsky: Gogolfest creator, savior of Ukrainian theater, troublemaker
Kyiv's Gogolfest has both grown and remained distinctly itself - not the easiest feat to pull off. Combining theater, music, visual art and workshops, the festival is the brainchild of Vlad Troitsky,...
London Film Festival: claustrophobia and carnage in “Lebanon”
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Fighting in built-up areas, street fighting, urban combat, call it what you will, is the real horror of modern...
London Film Festival: “Bad Lieutenant” will freak you out, rock your world
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Klaus Kinski is alive and well, and living under Nicholas Cage’s skin. In "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New...
“Genocide Before the Holocaust” doesn’t deliver
Since the Holocaust, we have paid increasing attention to genocide worldwide. Yet it is wrong to suggest that this form of violence has only constituted a meaningful part of human life following the...
Commuting
Please note that more of David King's poetry on GlobalComment can be found here. - The Management. Hell begins at six and has six lanes Damp black asphalt, slashed by hard white lines, And crawled by...
London Film Festival: “Ajami” is intense, over-wrought
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. The gangster travelogue continues its global tour by touching down in the mean streets of Jaffa with “Ajami.”...
The Magdalene slaves: immunity for religious orders must end
It’s 1967. You are fourteen and you sneak out to the cinema which has just opened. You are so excited to see the moving picture that your leg bounces up and down as you wait in line. It is a...
London Film Festival: “His & Hers” – of love and Irish proverbs
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” Ken Wardrop’s first...