RGBS’s Film of the Week: My Sassy Girl
My Sassy Girl was the first film in RGBS’s series of films of the week. If you’ve never seen this little-known jewel of a motion picture, now’s your chance. *** Released in 2001, the South Korean film...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Life and Debt
This little known documentary by Stephanie Black explores the effects of globalisation — in particular the role of international financiers and their enforcer, the IMF — on domestic industry and...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Marley
“I don’t really have no ambition, you know. I only have one thing I’d really like to see happen. I’d like to see mankind live together. Black, white, Chinese, everyone. That’s all.” Robert Nestor...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Inside Job
[Most of you will have no doubt already seen Charles Ferguson's superb, award-winning documentary on the 2007-08 financial crisis, Inside Job. This week's Film of the Week is for the few of you that...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Gasland
Gasland, Josh Fox’s alarming (or as gas industry lobbyists would have it, “alarmist”) HBO documentary on the environmental impact of the fracking industry in the U.S. is vital vieiwing for anybody who...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Quants — The Alchemists of Wall Street
With the banks ruling the world, and the machines as good as ruling the banks, just how close are we to another major financial crash? In this brilliant VPRO documentary, renowned “quants” — people who...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Control
For all you music buffs out there, here’s Anton Crobijn’s burnished gem of a biopic about Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, health and romantic troubles...
View ArticleThe Price of the World Cup
On the eve of the world’s biggest sporting circus, here’s Mikkel Keldof’s hard-hitting documentary The Price of the World Cup. The film offers a slice of the other reality in Brazil, the reality that...
View ArticleRGBS’s Film of the Week: Bye Bye Barcelona
Almost everybody loves Barcelona — myself included. It’s the reason I came to live here 14 years ago and it’s the reason why I’m still here. But Barcelona is no longer the city it was at the turn of...
View ArticleRGBS’s (Second) Film of the Week: Memory of a Plunder
Argentina is back on the front pages of the financial press — and once again for all the wrong reasons. As María Camila Morales outlines here, Cristina Kirchner’s populist model of economic governance...
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