A young Afghan taxi cab driver, innocent of the charge of participating in a rocket attack, was sold to the U.S., which was rabidly in search of anyone that it could brand a terrorist following the 9/11 attacks. Imprisoned at the American prison at Bagram, Dilawar was tortured, his stretched arms bound to an overhead […]
Daily Archives: October 17, 2008
Ken Loach has made the most powerful English-language films about struggling working-class lives of the past twenty years, and scenarist Paul Laverty has proven his ideal collaborator. My Name Is Joe, a case in point, is a tragicomedy of sledge-hammer force. It makes its steady way to an outcome of comradery and irreversible sacrifice that […]
Dennis Grunes 