A Week In Film #085: Nope

Nothing!

A Week In Film #084: Nuttin’

Maybe I’ve developed a block?

A Week In Film #083: Zilch

Nowt this week, either!

Mystery Pic #057

A scene from one of the best films I’ve seen is a while – but do you recognise it? Answers in the comments, please.

ETA:

No? It’s Le Convoyeur (or Cash Truck) by Nicolas Boukhrief.

Wildstyle: Camping the proper way

Just reading about ‘wild camping‘ after catching mention of it by Forest Pines on their Symbolic Forest blog. I knew that it’d been getting harder and harder to camp properly in the UK, with a camp fire, out in the open, you and the elements etc; I just hadn’t appreciated how hard it had become. Still, with all this lovely weather, I’m working up a hankering.

I’m even getting nostalgic for those ersatz wild camps at Broadstone Warren, pretending to be members of a phantom Venture Scout troop in order to make use of its incredibly cheap charges and seemingly endless woods, cooking under the stars, foraging for wood, sleeping under a basha, having accidents with sharp implements… Halcyon days.

Mystery Pic #056

Guess the film from the screengrabs – a toughie, this, so two pictures for your consideration…

ETA:

Didn’t think anyone would get this – it’s Volker Schlöndorff’s Lebanon Civil War-set Die Fälschung (aka Circle Of Deceit).

A Week In Film #082: Nada

No films this week…

Bristol EDO Decommissioners: Anti-war crime activist trial begins today in Hove

The trial began today of the EDO Decommissioners, a group of people from Bristol who wrought an estimated £180,000-worth of damage on a factory involved in production of bomb release clips used by the Israeli Defense Force to deliver lethal munitions into densely populated areas during Operation Cast Lead, its offensive on Gaza in December 2008-January 2009.

The five-strong group from Bristol which carried out the “citizens’ decommissioning” on the night of the 17th January last year is joined in court by three Brighton people who did not take part in the damage. The Decommissioners argue that their actions are lawfully excusable on the grounds that they were preventing Israeli war crimes. One of them, James ‘Elijah’ Smith, has been on remand since the action – seventeen months in gaol without a conviction.

The trial is taking place at Hove Crown Court in East Sussex, just the other side of Brighton to the Moulsecoomb-located EDO MBM factory which was the subject of the defendants’ actions, and is scheduled to last seven weeks.

Operation Cast Lead led to a United Nations investigation, culminating in the Goldstone Report, which was highly critical of the IDF’s conduct of the war:

We came to the conclusion, on the basis of the facts we found, that there was strong evidence to establish that numerous serious violations of international law, both humanitarian law and human rights law, were committed by Israel during the military operations in Gaza.

The mission concluded that actions amounting to war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity, were committed by the Israel Defense Force.

There’s no question that the firing of rockets and mortars [by armed groups from Gaza] was deliberate and calculated to cause loss of life and injury to civilians and damage to civilian structures. The mission found that these actions also amount to serious war crimes and also possibly crimes against humanity.

The Gaza war was marked, amongst other things, by IDF use of white phosphorus.

Mystery Pic #055

Recognise it? Answers in the comments…

ETA:

Sam got this – it’s Hunger.

Mystery Pic #054

Another film for you to identify from the screengrabs – stick your humble guesses in the comments, please…

ETA:

It was the not-as-good-as-its-parts Mathieu Kassovitz morality play Assassin(s).