The Missing Picture – Oscar Nominee from Cambodia
Update: Too bad, The Missing Picture, a powerful, engaging film about the Cambodian genocide did not win Best Foreign Film …
Tag Archives: Burma
Myanmar — Working Its Way from the Darkness
Burma, possibly becoming Myanmar. Rangoon, returned to being Yangon. Bagan, a countryside of ten thousand temples trying to imagine and …
Literary Festival in Rangoon
I would think that many, especially the young, would be dizzy with excitement in the ‘new’ Burma/Myanmar. After decades of …
Finding George Orwell in Burma, Emma Larkin — A Literary Traveler
When I first came across Emma Larkin’s title, Finding George Orwell in Burma I didn’t know what to make of …
Burmese Days, George Orwell, 1934
Burma was the land of mystery in my youth. Daring men who fought in secret wars in dark green and …
Burma –Resistance In Raw Footage
Making a movie, anywhere, anytime, is a tough enterprise. Doing it the middle of a civil insurrection, in which the …
The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films
When Kon Ichikawa‘s name is mentioned, ears don’t perk up in recognition. Even if “film maker” is added as …
River of Death in Burma
“Burma: ‘I stopped counting bodies on journey down river of death’ Corpses litter the landscape as the cyclone survivors are …
100,000 Thought to Be Dead in Burma
The number 100,000 is now being heard about the deaths in Burma/Myanmar. Impossible to believe. Though at least their suffering …