Cohen rules
In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Aladeen, a hybrid of Middle Eastern oil baron tin-pot rulers. He’s entirely egomaniacal, routinely orders his underlings to be executed and is flanked by sexy female bodyguards.
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China’s growing pains
Local director Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) pulls no punches with his latest documentary China Heavyweight, exploring the changes in Chinese society through the country’s emergent boxing scene
Female trouble
Terence Davies says he was very clear about one thing when he was approached to turn Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea into a movie. “I told them that this was going to involve a radical shift in the work.”
Unhappy hookers
Filmmaker Michael Glawogger manages to reflect the lives of sex workers in three different developing nations while never degrading them. Indeed, in the über-ironically-titled Whores’ Glory, there is a quiet dignity assumed by many as they tell their stories.
All about art
Montreal’s art-documentary festival, FIFA, celebrates its 30th year in 2012. And it wouldn’t be hyperbolic to suggest founder and director René Rozon deserves a standing ovation for hatching such a great plan
