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Armchair Traveller: Iran – Episode 43

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Second segment of the Armchair Traveller and World Cinema. A look at Iran and movies from Iran. Including Gabbeh, Blackboards, Abbas Kiarostami, Where is the Friend’s Home, Through the Olive Trees, The Wind Will Carry Us, The Taste of Cherry, The Circle and Persepolis. You can check out the first Armchair Traveller: Africa – Episode 37 here. 

Some things in life need a bit of investment of time and patience, and some of the films above are like this. So slow down with these ones. They’re more like a chat over a cup of coffee between two good friends, and have a sense of humour as subtle as a whiff of a cuban cigar from a block away. But after that, as Tomas said in the first episode ever, ‘The ROI is gonna be SUPER HIGH.’

Armchair Traveller: Africa – Episode 37

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Ten minutes of escapism with a look at some great movies set in Africa. Including Out Of Africa, Hotel Rwanda, The Last King Of Scotland, Blood Diamond, No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and the upcoming (apparently excellent) Endgame, featuring William Hurt. 

(With Hotel Rwanda, we have preferred to focus, for this episode, on the story of  Paul Rusesabag rather than the genocide in Rwanda, as that is the human (and inspiring) personal story that begins, and is a central thread,  of this film. It is a brilliant film and strongly recommended.)