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Film Review

Audrey Hepburn, Mexican Antiquities, Cultural Capital (Funny Face 1957)

Posted on 24 September 2017

No 1950s Bohemian Parisian philosophy flat is complete without an ancient Mexican figurine.

Film Review

Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery by Arne Birkenstock

Posted on 29 January 2016

The Wolfgang Beltracchi film has come to Netflix, but this forger flick feels forced.

Film Review

Dance of the Maize God: a beautiful film about the pillaging of the Maya past

Posted on 24 July 2014

Out of the looters trench and on to the computer in less than an hour: a film review from Belize.

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