Graham Fuller

Oct 12, 2024 | shorturl.at | Graham Fuller

What is it about Maria Bakalova and those goatish Republicans? In 2020, when she was 24, the Bulgarian actress starred as the 15-year-old daughter of Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakh journo in Borat Subsequent Movie Film, her English-language debut, and inveigled the very real Rudy Giuliani into fiddling with his crotch on camera. That movie premiered 11 days before the last presidential election.

Oct 11, 2024 | airmail.news | Graham Fuller

What is it about Maria Bakalova and those goatish Republicans? In 2020, when she was 24, the Bulgarian actress starred as the 15-year-old daughter of Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakh journo in Borat Subsequent Movie Film, her English-language debut, and inveigled the very real Rudy Giuliani into fiddling with his crotch on camera. That movie premiered 11 days before the last presidential election.

Jul 1, 2024 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Graham Fuller

In a seemingly minor diplomatic event in the Persian Gulf, the Kingdom of Bahrain has just agreed to begin talks with Iran to reestablish long-broken diplomatic relations between the two countries. While Bahrain is a small island in the Gulf with little latitude in policies largely controlled by its giant neighbor, Saudi Arabia, this event carries greater significance than may readily meet the eye.

Feb 21, 2024 | shorturl.at | Graham Fuller

Wim Wenders’ latest narrative film Perfect Days might seem an uncommonly mellow work by the maker of Alice in the Cities (1974), The American Friend (1977), Paris, Texas (1984), and Wings of Desire (1987), but it still finds the 78-year-old German director in existentially questing mode. The Oscar-nominated drama, Wenders' biggest box-office success, takes its title from Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” and its Zen-like serenity from its protagonist Hirayama (affectingly played by Kōji Yakusho).

Jan 31, 2024 | criterion.com | Graham Fuller

No one who has seen Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting (1996) can forget its frenetic opening—a shot in the arm for British film, which at the time, thanks to the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), was tightening its corsets and brushing up its bourgeois etiquette.