Hotel Rwanda, 2004

I was only fourteen when this was happening and my memory of the media coverage is certainly not exact, but it seems like Hotel Rwanda tells us an important story of an individual trying to make a difference in the face of hatred and genocide. One decade after the massive atrocity committed in Rwanda [...]
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The Pianist, 2002

Adrien Brody stars in this Roman Polanski-directed story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, an internationally renowned Jewish pianist living in Poland during World War II and his struggle with the help of the thread-bare resources of the Jewish resistance in Poland following the Nazi invasion, to stay alive and make it through the war. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: [...]
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The Zodiac, 2007

One of the most recent pictures of David Fincher was The Zodiac; a retelling of the true story of the serial killer who terrorized California during the 1960s and 1970s and whose identity was never determined.  Fincher models the telling of this tale through the lens of a political cartoonist working for a local newspaper [...]
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