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The King’s Speech

by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton Pomp and Circumstances – The King’s Speech Who, among us, has not agonized over having to deliver an oral composition in school? Standing up there, in front of the whole class, praying your voice doesn’t betray your nervousness, sweating the sweat of flops, we struggle to get it over with […]

Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today

<em>Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today</em>

NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY (1948) [The 2009 Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration] screening at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival by Tobi Gordon for FILMbutton The documentary film has come a long way since its early days as either an instructional tool or tool of propaganda. The ponderous male voice intoning over scratchy black and white images has […]