Pomona Rewind

The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan famously said the tragedy of Srebrenica would "forever haunt the history of the United Nations.” Eight thousand Muslim men and boys were massacred in 1995 by General Ratko Mladic's Serbian forces in one of the most shocking acts of genocide of the post Second World War era. 25,000-30,000 other people were also displaced despite initially being under the protection of United Nations forces. Judge Fouad Road would later observe at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague that "a truly terrible massacre of the Muslim population appears to have taken place. "Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of mem buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers' eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. "These are truly scenes from Hell, written on the darkest pages of human history." Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic recre...

  As cinematic debuts go, Ned Beatty's first film role was an eye watering experience. The Kentuckian was cast as Bobby Tripe in John Boorman's 1972 hit thriller 'Deliverance' alongside Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds and Ronny Cox. But his character also had the misfortune of being subjected to rape by two Apalachian mountain men in one of the most disturbing moments of 1970s cinema. Even in this era where we have grown accustomed to screen violence, the rape scene in 'Deliverance' still has the power to shock and disgust. But it also set Beatty on a path where he became one of Hollywood's most reliable supporting actors. Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937, he sang in the gospel halls and barbershop quartets of St Matthews and landed a scholarship as an acapella group singer in Transylvania University in Lexington in his home state. However he fell in love with theatre, working in Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana in the 1960s. It was a long apprenticeship before ...