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Neither "No" nor "War Witch" made it into the Golden Globes selection.
"War Witch" is his fourth feature and the first to earn an Oscar nomination.
And from Canada comes War Witch, Kim Nguyen's tale of a child soldier in an unnamed African republic.
The fourth feature directed by Kim Nguyen, a Montreal-based filmmaker of Vietnamese descent, "War Witch" shows a lot of gunfire but little actual bloodshed.
Canada got a nod with "War Witch," a film shot primarily in Congo about an adolescent girl-soldier trapped in civil war.
Although the location is identified only as sub-Saharan Africa, "War Witch" was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ground zero of endless carnage and unspeakable atrocities.
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By 2006, they left behind warring witches for the equally strange battleground of Drum's Not Dead, pitched as a war between the fictional forces representing creativity (Drum) and anxiety (Mt Heart Attack).
This is why, for all their failings, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful, with their giant-headed queens, excitable talking animals and gorgeous warring witches, will always be remembered more fondly than furrow-browed Angelina Jolie-vehicle Maleficent, or any of the distinctly po-faced Narnia films.
I must admit, I love the idea of warring witches who might be friends but are more likely to be enemies, each with his/her own specific curses and powers.
"Fellow Travelers," based on Thomas Mallon's novel, is set in the period of Cold War homophobic witch hunts; it is a tale of forbidden love without a happy ending, although neither of its lead characters meets the tragic fate common in narratives of this type.
This morning the BBC bravely handed over the Today programme to PJ Harvey as guest editor, clearly unconcerned that she might well use the opportunity to take a piercing look at the burning civil war and witch trial issues of 1647.
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