Foreign Ghosts

Starring:Mak, Bryant
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
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PBS special: one of the best
5 stars
The Depths of Darkness
A Great Documentary
The shame of the "civilized world" exposed.

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda

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ASIN: B0007TKI06
Release Date: 2005-05-10

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FRONTLINE marks the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide with a documentary chronicling one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. In addition to interviews with key government officials and diplomats, the two-hour documentary offers eyewitness accounts of the genocide from those who experienced it firsthand. FRONTLINE illustrates the failures that enabled the slaughter of 800,000 people to occur unchallenged by the global community.

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PBS special: one of the best.......2007-06-01

I teach a genocide and hate awareness class. As a teacher, this documentary outstrips other videos concerning the atrocities in Rwanda. So many of our kids have seen Hotel Rwanda. Not that it is bad, but it was edited by the director to not be as graphic as it could have been, and many of the key characters were changed, such as Gen. Dallaire into Nick Nolte's character.
The Ghosts of Rwanda interview many key people, from Dallaire to Kofi Annan, to the only American left in Rwanda to Hutu farmers who participated in the killings. It is the most indepth coverage that I can find. I would recommend it to anyone wanting information on the Rwandan genocide.

5 stars.......2007-05-13

If you want to see the Rwandan genocide from an international perspective with interviews ranging from Kofe Annan to Madeline Albright I highly reccomend this documentary. Graphic at times, but always poignant.

The Depths of Darkness.......2007-03-19

This 2 hour Frontline special probes into the depths of darkness in humanity, not just the Hutu's and Tutsi's, but also the UN, the international community and its leaders. I was shocked and dismayed by some of the cold callous acts perpetrated by western governments during Rwanda's hour of need. I use "hour of need" of course as a figment of speech, since this atrocity took place over 100 days.

This video clearly documents the events of the Rwandan Genocide. It interviews key players in the international community as well as those who participated in, and were victims of the Genocide. For the most part, the video shows the Genocide from an outside perspective. It volleys back and forth between all of the killing in Rwanda and the international communities response. The footage of death is deeply saddening. I was only uplifted by the few stories of individuals who risked their lives to save some.

I would have loved to see them make this into a three part special since it does not give the background into the area or the history that led up to such a tension, nor does it explore the colonial legacy that the Rwandans inherited. I was also disappointed that it didn't cover the events that took place after the RPF won the civil war. Understandably, they could not cover all aspects in one film, but and introduction and a follow-up would really help paint a fuller picture of events. Overall, I highly recommend this video, it is hard to watch, but it definitely opened up my eyes to the plight of so many people in Rwanda.

A Great Documentary.......2007-02-11

I watched this documentary on PBS and I must say that it is one of the best ones I have seen in my whole life. And it is extremely disturbing too, because it sadly reminds us of what the human being is still capable of. The murder of almost one million lives in a couple of weeks was a shame for the whole mankind. The international community did nothing to stop the killings, the UN was as always deplorable and the soi-disant civilised world, i.e. the USA, France, UK, Belgium, Germany et alii, did not mind to intervene for political reasons, although at the time the USA had the marines in nearby Burundi. The Clinton administration and Kofi Annan(at the time chief of the peace keeping operations) did absolutely nothing concrete but uttering stupid, useless rhetorical and technical speeches. Not to mention the shameful, coward stance of the Belgian government that panicked and withdrew its troops and citizens. The real heroes were a bunch of canadian and african troops that did their very best to protect the remaining tutsis and moderate hutus and therefore deserve our biggest praises for all their efforts. Again, it is one more appalling moment in the human history. It seems we never learn. Among the scenes that shocked me forever are the sad images of dead bodies being drifted away in a rwandan river and of a little girl, nowadays a lady, being found alive among the dead bodies of her family. This DVD provides a wonderful opportunity to think over the sordid and noxious nature of European colonialism in Africa, after all, Rwanda was a Belgian colony and the Belgian fomented the apartheid between the Tutsis and Hutus through, among other things, the use of ID cards stating their ethnicity. It also shows the dangers of hands-off policies when intervention is morally and rightly justified and required. This is a must-have DVD. Please, let us not allow another Rwanda to happen again...

The shame of the "civilized world" exposed........2007-02-06

A gripping and honest account of the role that the UN, Europe and USA have had in the Rwanda genocide with the cowardliness of their politics more marketing oriented than interested in the humanitarian cause. Any one thinking about voting for the Clintons again should see this, to grasp the real level of leadership they can produce under heat. Not to mention Kofi Annan (Nobel prize winner ???) a real butcher in diplomat's clothes.

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What a wonderful film!
When you don't want to say good bye
Cute and Romantic
Great movie
Following an Accident, a Widow Sees Ghosts in Her Left Eye

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts
Starring: Fung Li , Wah Lung Szema , Simon Yam , Chi-Sing Lam , and Tian-lin Wang
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What a wonderful film!.......2006-09-11

I had never even heard of this film before it was recommended to me, so I watched it purely on the recommendation. What a great surprise! I had thought it was a horror flic, but as everyone else has pointed out, it's much, much more than that. The scenery is spectacular, the clothes are to die for, the story is touching and comical at the same time. I laughed; I cried; I want my own copy.

When you don't want to say good bye.......2006-06-13

When we meet May (played by Sammi Cheng), she has had the rare experience of meeting, marrying and losing her husband Daniel all within seven days. She inherits his fortune, his luxury house and his vintage car. Daniel's family thinks that she's an airhead and a gold digger but May doesn't do a thing to change their opinions about her. Her mother-in-law doesn't like her much but tolerates her while Daniel's ex-girlfriend and business partner, Susan, hates her openly. The only one who shows some sympathy for May is her sister-in-law, Tina. Three years after losing her husband, May has drifted through life with no purpose or goals. One night, after having one too many drinks, she falls asleep at the wheel and crashes her husband's car. Her disembodied soul encounters a ghost who forces her to return to May's body before it's too late, thus saving her from death. When she wakes up in the hospital, she realizes that her left eye, the one that sustained injury during the accident, is capable of seeing ghosts. From here on, the movie follows the evolving relationship between May and Ken (played by Lau Ching Wan), the ghost who helped her during the accident. He reveals that he was a classmate of hers in elementary school and that he drowned when he was 13. Curiously though, he has the shape of an adult man and when you get to the end of the movie, you'll know why.
As their friendship grows stronger, May starts taking interest in life again. She adopts the stray puppies that Ken brings home, grows plants, finds somebody to restore her husband's rare vintage car and to everybody's surprise, she wants to start doing some real work at the family company. Whereas she was indifferent to the people around her, now, she reaches out and helps not only those in this world but the ones in the other world too. Her only regret is that though she has seen many ghosts, she has not seen her husband, the one she longs for the most, but has she? Sometimes we are blind to what is near us.
Even though I feel that Sammi Cheng is overacting a bit even for a comedy, she is still very effective at making her character transform from the selfish, not-too-bright chick everybody thinks she is at the beginning of the movie to a genuinely grief stricken woman. Lau Ching Wan also does well at conveying the rascal, reckless, 13-year-old Ken. His character says a lot of nonsense, but that's because he has to convince May that he...oh, well, you'll understand when you see the movie.
And don't let the "horror" labeling put you off. If you set the horror elements of this movie aside, what's left at the core is a touching story of two people who must learn to let go in spite of the fact that they love each other very much.

Cute and Romantic.......2005-07-26

My left Eye sees ghosts is the story of May, an irresponsible widow who, after her husband drowns in a scuba accident becomes inconsolable and suicidal. After an accident where she injures her eye, she gains the ability to see dead people. She develops a relationship with Ken, a ghostly acquaintance from her gradeschool days.

Ken teaches her to love again, in a very quirky, humorous manner. This is a romantic film in the tradition of ghost.

What can I say? I liked it. Although I admit at first I didn't like the character of May, I grew to enjoy her quirky eccentricities. The actor who played Ken was believable and romantic. Some scenes were low budget (like the scenes where she is holding the injured puppy on the highway and it is very clearly a toy), or the scenes where Ken is acting 'ghostly,' (the cgi looked cheesy), overall, this is a cute HK flick with a fun and satisfying ending. Nice Work

Great movie.......2005-04-01

I found this little gem by accident. It's a charming little movie with a since of humor - watch it, it's good! I really don't like giving reviews, but I saw this movie only had 3 reviewers and it wasn't enough.. so I'm adding another 5 star to the results...

Following an Accident, a Widow Sees Ghosts in Her Left Eye.......2004-12-10

The 2002 Chinese film "My Left Eye Sees Ghosts" (called "Ngo Joh Aan Gin Diy Gwai" in Cantonese) is an engaging and endearing film about a woman, May Ho (Sammi Cheng) that is widowed immediately after her marriage when her husband drowns while scuba diving. In fact, she only knew her deceased husband, Daniel, for seven days before they were married. Having spent so little time with Daniel, Daniel's surviving blood relatives question May's reasons for marrying him as Daniel was very wealthy and May inherited everything: his home with a spectacular seaside view, his expensive Mercedes and his money. Spending much of her time trying to deal with her grief, May turns to drinking. One night, with a whiskey bottle in hand, May crashes Daniel's prized Mercedes. May is flung from the crashed car and is taken to the hospital. Most of the impact damage is on her left side, particularly her left eye. It is in the hospital that May sees a strange individual, Ken Wong (Ching Wan Lau), who is ghost; but she can only see him with her left eye. Further, Ken is not the only ghost that she can see. After sufficiently recovering from the accident, May returns to her home only to find that Ken (the ghost) has come with her. With a new car, she tries to escape the frightening apparition of Ken, but eventually stops the car and runs briefly on foot. There, she finds a cute puppy that is dying because it had been hit by another car earlier. Ken tells May to take the puppy to a veterinarian to save his life, which she does. She keeps the puppy and an interesting relationship develops between her and Ken. Still mourning Daniel's death, May wishes that she could see him as a ghost with her left eye. Unbeknownst to her, she is in for a big surprise; but you'll just have to watch the film to find out what it is!

The film was directed by Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai. Ka-Fai Wai also co-wrote the story. Though little known in the U.S., "My Left Eye Sees Ghosts" is a wonderful comedic and emotional film. Other memorable characters include Susan (San-san Lee), Tina (Cherrie Ying), their aunt, the fat ghost, May's father, the priestess and the other ghosts that May communicates with. With a myriad of wonderful scenes, good cinematography, great dialog (I prefer English subtitles instead of dubbing) and an engaging story, I rate "My Left Eye Sees Ghosts" with 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it to everyone.

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Foreign Ghosts
Starring: Mak , and Bryant
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4 those who get scared of anythin'..........

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4 those who get scared of anythin'.................2007-03-24

a scary movie as ya read the description 4 my opinion it ain't scary at all but it's a good movie though that's why i gave it 3 stars...if ya r lookin' 4 a scary movie it ain't the one.......

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Charlie Rose with Randall Robinson; Willie Morris (February 16, 1998)

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First Charlie speaks with Randall Robinson, the founder and president of TransAfrica, the organization that has been involved in talking about and shaping American foreign policy in Africa and the Caribbean. Robinson, who was born and raised in the segregated South, talks about his new memoir, Defending the Spirit, and race in America Then, author Willie Morris, whose coverage of the third and last trial of Byron De La Beckwith, led to the 1997 film version, Ghosts of Mississippi, talks about his new book, The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, about his experiences as a consultant and the film, The Ghosts of Mississippi.

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A Gruesome, but Necessary Film
Rwanda 1994: 8,000 people killed each day for 100 days
Documentary Filmmaking at it's Best.

Ghosts of Rwanda
Starring: Will Lyman
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Release Date: 2004-06-29

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A Gruesome, but Necessary Film.......2005-01-21

Despite what many in our culture have identified as a gradual desensitization to violence, this documentary reminds us that all too many are simply not willing to look violence and its causes sqaurely in the face. Barker's documentary is a methodical, sober, and reflective look at the genocide in Rwanda that occurred only ten years ago, on the watch of a man who so many (the reviewer included) considered a breath of fresh air. In 1992, Bill Clinton was seen as an energetic young President who would realign America's foreign policy around the human rights principles of Jimmy Carter. Barker rightly identifies the moral failure of Clinton and his administration in their turning away from the ongoing massacre in Rwanda, when there was clear information that the Hutu extremists had planned to exterminate the minority Tutsis, and specifically Tutsi children.

The film cleverly allows the principle figures to tell their own stories, thus leaving viewers to make their own judgments. By juxtaposing the retelling of the horrors by survivors (including a young girl who lived for six weeks in a church filled with hundreds of corpses) with the self-absolving excuses of those such as Kofi Annan and Madeleine Albright, Barker effectively reveals the unwillingness and incompetence of those in the West who had the ability to step in and stop the killing - perhaps not at first, but certainly as the atrocities became known both through the BBC and the Red Cross. Other than the survivors, the most compelling testimony comes from three westerners - Canadian UN general Romeo Dallaire, Red Cross worker Phillipe Gaillard, and American missionary Carl Wilkens. Dallaire's testimony is the clear centerpiece of the film, and he has received the most publicity due to his role as commanding general of the peacekeeping forces. Dallaire, in his opening scene, talks about the fear in the eyes of those who experienced the terror and pled for help, but is in his eyes that we can see the full burden and weight of Rwanda. Gaillard, however, is even more effective, in his understated sense of outrage about the lack of intervention at the highest levels of the U.N. In him we see a man who saw the full horrors of the genocide, yet has a basic compassion for the burden and guilt that Dallaire bears on a daily basis. I am not taken to crying or even tearing up when watching films or documentaries, but Gaillard's testimony is both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, and when he tells the viewer that he is OK after all these years, one knows he is both understating his pain and contextualizing it within the much greater (and unimaginable) pain of the 800,000 Rwandans who were murdered, and the grief of their families.

If the film has a weakness (and indeed, this review reproduces the problem) it is that, in rightfully assigning blame for the genocide at the West's doorstep, it lingers too extensively on the reactions of Westerners and does not sufficiently engage with the stories of the Rwandans themselves. We have the account of the young girl who survives the massacre at the church, and there is an excellent portrayal of the Senegalese UN officer Mbaye, who saved hundreds of lives. I would have liked to have heard from Paul Rusesabagina, who has recently been lionized in Terry George's film, Hotel Rwanda. The journalist Phillip Gourevitch was able to talk to several survivors, and it seems that Barker could have done more in this respect.

This is an emotional and powerful film. It works by gradually drawing the viewer into the true horror of the genocide. The killings, confined to Kigali in its initial days, slowly spread to the outer provinces, and in the film's second hour, the viewer is assaulted with the results of the Hutu's murderous project in all of its grisly details. Shots of rotting flesh, neglected corpses, putrefied wounds, severed limbs, dying children, and blood-filled rivers are numerous. I would say that this is not a film for the feint of heart, but to turn away from the reality of what happened is quite simply moral cowardice. Every American should be encouraged to watch this film once they reach an age where they can properly assess the graphic images and process them in the proper ethical context. And there is an important mesage which, in these days of the Iraq war, is increasingly poignant: that military power, when properly deployed, can prevent true evil. As Americans, we need not shrink from this exercise of military power provided we understand its implications and its responsibilities, a lesson for which too many administrations have not displayed consistent appreciation.

Rwanda 1994: 8,000 people killed each day for 100 days.......2004-12-21

Wars are usually not fought to save people's lives; they are fought for economic reasons, to maintain or expand markets around the world. There is no immediate profit from spreading peace, justice, or equality. As any member of the Bush administration will tell you, war is good for business.
In 1994, no one considered Rwanda to be worth getting involved in, and now Europe and America must look back with regret at a situation that escalated into something no one would admit was happening: full-blown genocide. It was not until months and even years later that politicians and journalists realized the magnitude of what had happened after traveling to Rwanda to see the decomposing corpses lying in yards, on church floors, and inside homes.
This documentary is an excellent, sobering, and intense look at what happened in Rwanda during 1994 when the world refused to get involved in a senseless civil war that took the lives of 800,000 men, women, and children over the span of a few months. As in many tragedies, heroic figures emerged to risk themselves for the good of others. The movie includes the stories of Carl Wilkens, an American church worker who stayed behind after every single American had fled; Philippe Gaillard, a Red Cross worker; and Captain Mbaye Diagne, a UN solider who went beyond the call of duty to help save as many as he could.
Hopefully, this film will help people learn about a time many are unaware of and emphasize the importance of thinking globally, not provincially. In short, this DVD is highly recommended.

Documentary Filmmaking at it's Best........2004-09-17

This is simply one of the best films I've seen, documentary or narrative. The atrocities of 1994 are brought to the forefront by those that lived through it. The international ensemble tell what happened with emotion, honesty, and compassion. The pace of this film is of a standard not available on the cable channels. After the holocaust the world said "never again". Of course it did happen again in Rwanda while the world sat back and did nothing. A must see for all people regardless of nationality or political leanings.

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