Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin: NAZA and The Agency

Nights' Dan Slevin, is one of the best film reviewers in any medium, consistently convincing, insightful, unpretentious, perceptive, thoughtful and articulate. He joins us every Thursday night, and here's what's caught his eye this week.

Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin joins Emile Donovan to review:

IN CINEMAS

NAZA (directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor). From two of the directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, NAZA is based on interviews with two dozen anonymous Israeli security and intelligence officers about the methods and tactics being used in the war on Gaza. NAZA is the technical jargon (a military acronym in Hebrew) they use for a civilian victim of “collateral damage”.

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The Agency (season one). Espionage thriller set in the London offices of the CIA. Michael Fassbender plays “Martian”, recently returned from six years undercover in Ethiopia and struggling to adjust to life back home - especially when he discovers that the woman he fell in love with in Addis Ababa is also now in London. Cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Katherine Waterston and Richard Gere.

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