DAVID WALSH
Here we are again in the waning days of the year and obliged to submit lists of interesting films that appeared on movie screens, or were shown at film festivals, over the past twelve months.
Among the efforts of the US film industry, still the most powerful and influential in the world, the pickings remain shamefully thin.
Wealth and social insularity, as well as a lack of historical knowledge and perspective and other ideological impediments, continue to hold back even the more interesting figures in both Hollywood and independent film circles from seriously looking at reality in their own country, or anywhere else for that matter. It is difficult to think of a precedent.
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