WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
The Human Factor
MARIA DUARTE recommends a behind-the-scenes look at the decades-long involvement of US diplomats in the Middle East
ALL ABOUT HISTORY: From left: Israel’s then prime minister Ehud Barak, US president Bill Clinton and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David talks in 2000
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
The Human Factor (15)
Directed by Dror Moreh
AS THE Israel-Palestine conflict rages once again, resulting in more violence and death, Dror Moreh’s timely new film provides an invaluable insight into the difficulties and elusiveness of achieving peace in the Middle East.
It takes an extraordinary and illuminating behind-the-scenes look at the United States’s decades-long involvement in the region, but through the eyes of the key US negotiators on the front line.
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