Film Reviews


	War/Dance by George Sax
	Near the climactic sequence in War/Dance, there are a couple of brief shots of a small boy playing a crude, wooden xylophone amid a group of young performers. His face is a virtual study in rapturous concentration. It seems to be expressing nothing less than joy. The scene is striking, but it’s also remarkable because of what this documentary has told us about this serious but friendly 14-year-old’s background. He’s been a participant in wartime atrocities in the over 20-year-long Ugandan civil war.
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Girish Shambu
	Starting out as a film buff in my teens in India, I remember buying a book on the history of the Academy Awards and committing it to memory. I had never been to America but Hollywood made me want to move there. Just a few years later, when I made Buffalo my home, it was the siren call of American movies and culture that brought me here. When I arrived, I brought that dog-eared, well-thumbed book on the Oscars with me.

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