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The revolution introduced me to art, and art, in its own turn, brought me to the revolution.

Sergei Eisenstein

Tuesday, 19 September 2017 07:59

Venice Film Festival 2017: Part Two

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe, on the World Film Beat, gives a windup report from the Venice Film Festival. This was truly a festival that had something for everyone with its top prize, which coincides with my top film, going to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, making it by far the frontrunner…

Monday, 11 September 2017 20:17

Venice Film Festival 2017

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reviews the 2017 Venice Film Festival. There are three main stories at this 74th edition of the oldest film festival in the world. Venice as launch pad The first is the increasing use of Venice as a launch pad for the Hollywood Academy Awards, with the streak of…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 25 August 2017 07:37

Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?

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Written by Daniel Clarkson Fisher

Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a 'truly radical flowering' of progressive film culture. In keeping with his penchant for enormity, Christopher Nolan’s new film Dunkirk arrives at the intersection of two large…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 14 August 2017 11:17

Dunkirk - a visceral account of the Allied retreat

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Written by Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture of Great Britain. Images, paintings and newspaper clippings which tell the story of 400,000 British troops attempting to retreat from France with the…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 09 July 2017 06:00

Wonder Woman: a feminist anti-war fable?

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Written by Dennis Broe

Feminist anti-war fable, or just another piece of cinematic propaganda enlisting feminism to sustain violent imperialism? Dennis Broe reviews the newly-released Wonder Woman. 'Pure entertainment' is the handle of one twitter hashtag about the film which is now on its way to grossing 600 million worldwide, and is being hailed…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 26 June 2017 19:49

'The most important of the arts': film after the Russian Revolution

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Written by John Green

John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the Soviet Union but across the world. According to the Bolshevik government’s first Commissar for Education, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Lenin remarked that, ‘Film for us…

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Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:50

Not the Feelies

Written by Jenny Farrell

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Jenny Farrell explains how Leviathan reveals the nature of capitalism. The dystopias of the mid-20th century, Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), described with astonishing accuracy the world we live in today: thought police, news speak, genetic engineering, escapist drugs and a cinema that conditions people not to…

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Friday, 16 June 2017 13:36

Cannes 70 Final Round-Up

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe gives his final report and round-up from Cannes. This is Bro on the World Film Beat “Breaking Glass” in my final report from Cannes 2017............ Cannes Redux: Top Films Outside the Main Competition My colleagues have gone home long ago, but I’m still wandering the Croissette here at…

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Tuesday, 13 June 2017 19:45

Cannes 70 Part 3: Best of the Fest

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe runs through the best of the fest at Cannes this year. What were the two most prominent stories at the 70th iteration of the Cannes Film Festival, the ultimate competition and market for cinema? One was the increased presence of the streaming cable service Netflix, which seldom even opens…

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Friday, 02 June 2017 20:34

Cannes 70 Part 2

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe in Cannes reports on migrants dying at the festival, heavy and stifling security, female warriors and the Golden Age of African Cinema. This is Bro on the World Film Beat Once Again “Breaking Glass” at the Cannes Film Festival. The prizes are in at the festival and first…