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Hotel Rwanda (2004)
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx Hotel Rwanda is on the following AFI list: 100 Most Inspiring Movies (#90) Hotel Rwanda is the third Africa message movie to appear in my weekly red envelope in the past couple of months. Don Cheadle, another actor I like in just about everything he does, was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, and, for some reason, I've never been able to see this film until this past week, on my day off after a long weekend of technical rehearsals for "A Wonderful Life" at the Grand Rapids Civic Theater (buy a ticket today!). As it turns out, it also happens to be an AFI movie! The sneaky AFI decided that the film was worthy enough to make the 100 Cheers list, the list they deemed to be the 100 most inspirational films in American film history, which was published the year of the film's release. I think that's a fair cop - ... "
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"There wasn't enough room in the subject line for me to say this is a British, Italian and South African co-production. Hotel Rwanda was released with close to unanimous critical acclaim, and many selected it as the best film of 2004. While it does have some impressive elements, I admired it more for its content then its form. One cineaste I know called it Schindlers List in Africa, but it lacks the ideas of that film (restrain yourself, Edwin, you havent seen it). In a way, it is a well made two-hour public service announcement for Amnesty International, a great organization, yes, but better films have been made about mans depravity to other men. The premise of the two films, both of which are based on true events, is the same: a man caught up in a war risks everything to try to save the lives of complete strangers at risk of genocide, while he himself is of the majority group and would be safe if he left quietly alone. The man here is Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), a manger at t ... "
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"An incredibly moving tale of one man's courage and his ability to step up to the plate, even when everything else is telling him to run. Don Cheadle is flawless as Paul Rusesabagina, and for most of the film, I forgot that he doesn't actually have an accent. This is an important to see, even if you don't care for this type of film. This film makes it in my top 20 films of all time list, for sure. "
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"Hotel Rwanda (British/South African/Italian co-production) is a gripping and moving true story of attempted genocide in Rwanda. The strength of the film is that Paul, the hotel manager and main character, is a lot like us, except black and living in Africa. The action is more terrifying for being indirect. We see the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi from the perspective of the manager of a swanky hotel—who gives refuge to 1236 people after the whites are airlifted and Rwandans left to slaughter themselves. The acting is top notch: Nick Nolte is fine as an amalgam of Romeo Delare and other UN officers (he has a Canadian flag arm patch and an American accent); Cara Seymour is perfect as the haggard British Red Cross worker; and the stars, Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo, have no trouble creating believable and likeable characters through all the turmoil. This was a movie worth making, and it was made well. It is also one I thought about for some time after.Jim Bell "
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"Hello all - here is my daily log from my trip to Rwanda last summer, ill post some pics later this month. 6/15 The flights from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis to Amsterdam went well, with the layover in Amsterdam being the most interesting because hardly. The layover in Minneapolis was only 1:30. In Amsterdam we had a real short layover. There was a guy who slipped in some puke right before the terminal. He fell right into it and then couldn’t get up because it was so slippery. I would imagine that he got a free flight or something. 6/16 The city was real dark and the ride there was interesting because all the cars and trucks spew out smoke pretty good. There was pretty tight security outside the hotel because it is right down the road from a place that was actually bombed a few years ago. The hotel was pretty nice, and there was a nice restaurant where we ate dinner and breakfast. I roomed with a guy from mars hill – and during the night he woke up and thought I was a loc ... "
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"Hotel Rwanda This is a very good movie, as it displays the horror and devistation of the Rwandian genocide in the early 1990s. This film is especially moving to me, as I actually visited Kigali, Rwanda (as well as some other small east African countries) in 2005 with World Relief. The hotel in the movie looks alot different than the one actually in Kigali, but this movie makes up for it by being accurate on larger details. Send me a msg if you want more details or pics from my trip:) "
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