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Business as Usual: The Rise of the Russian Mafia

In These Times editor Joel Bleifuss takes a hard look at the Russian mafia - in film and in the real world.

In the Zone: The Films of David Cronenberg

Critic Jonathan Romney looks at David Cronenberg's a hard look at the at's a hard look at the cinematic career

When the Ink Dries: Tattoos in the Russian Mafia

Scott Macaulay talks with Alix Lambert whose film Mark of Cain on Russian prison tattoos inspired Eastern Promises.

The Violence Within

Director David Cronenberg talks with Scott Macaulay about what makes violence the stuff of cinema.