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Sharing some thematic and aesthetic ground with his widely acclaimed gallery piece Mnemosyne, but developing and extending the focus, this new feature work confirms John Akomfrah as one of the UK’s most singular and visionary filmmakers. In this work of uncommon intelligence, a vast array of archival material is combined with newly shot scenes to form a series of tone poems that feel, rather than tell, the history of mass migration to postwar Britain. Existential science fiction provides the inspiration and Homer's epic poem The Odyssey the narrative underpinning, just two of a host of cultural reference points that inform this absorbing allegorical fable. Writings from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett and TS Eliot are woven together with music that ranges from popular songs and Indian classical compositions to Purcell and Schubert. Akomfrah wears his erudition lightly: the sophistication of his investigation of identity, memory and myth is breathtaking but understated, and social history is rarely re-imagined as lyrically as this.
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Video Length: 186
Date Found: February 19, 2011
Date Produced: February 17, 2011
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July 17, 2011
Trailer for Empty.  Charming young slacker Dell Hansard (Jon Carlo) is in love with beautiful Piper (Ashley C. Williams). He makes an impromptu proposal on a weeklong camping trip, but Piper, the daughter of a wealthy businessman hesitates. On their way home they stop ...
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July 17, 2011
Trailer for The Bachelor Party.  30-year-old Lance (Lamman Rucker, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?) is marrying Michelle (Essence Atkins, N-Secure), the girl of his dreams, and his closest buddies, Trey (Ginuwine), Reny (Christian Keyes, Tyler Perry's ...
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July 17, 2011
Peter (David Strathairn) tells Kathy (Rachel Weisz) that she’s not safe.
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July 17, 2011
Watch the short documentary A Day in a Life. Documentary follows producer/writer/director John Lasseter.
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July 15, 2011
Gargamel (Hank Azaria) attempts to make an entrance.
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