Films

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

Sergei Eisenstein

Friday, 02 November 2018 21:25

Peterloo

Written by Mike Wayne

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Mike Wayne reviews Mike Leigh's new film, a complex, powerful reconstruction of a key historical moment in the ongoing class struggle of the British working class. Most of Mike Leigh’s films have been small scale, intimate and personal stories rather than the explicitly political territory Ken Loach is well known…

Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:02

Culture Punch: The Many Horrors of the Disney Corporation

Written by Paul Victor Tims

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There is a certain self-satisfaction to our popular culture which I find nauseating. TV and film are used to tell more styles and types of stories than ever before. At any given moment I can boot up Netflix or Amazon Prime and find a hundred sci-fi series, horror flicks, romances…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 19 September 2018 17:01

Nae Pasaran: They Did Not Pass

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Written by John Green

John Green reviews a new film about the solidarity and courage of some Scots engineering workers who took action against the Chilean military coup of 1973. Nae Pasaran tells the incredible but true story of the Scots workers who, from the other side of the world, managed to ground half…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:21

Black 47

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Written by Luke Callinan

Luke Callinan reviews Black 47, a film which reminds us of the brutal and inhuman nature of colonisation. Lance Daly’s Black 47, which was released in September 2018, is the first feature-length film dealing directly with the catastrophic events of 1845-1849 in Ireland that became known subsequently as “The Famine”. It…

Irish Famine

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 10 September 2018 09:28

Class, gender and race issues: the Venice Film Festival 2018

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reviews this year's Venice Film Festival. The top prize at the Venice Film Festival went to Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, a black and white, long-take, masterpiece about class relations in Mexico distributed by Netflix. All of these factors will make it a challenge for the Hollywood Film Academy to…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 07 September 2018 17:11

Fiddling While Rome Burns and Venice Sinks: the Venice Film Festival

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Written by Dennis Broe

Dennis Broe reports from the Venice Film Festival. It was again extraordinarily hot in Rome this summer, so hot tourism really halts mid-afternoon to early evening. Meanwhile, the city of Venice continues to sink with the Moise project which is supposed to save it poised to go online, so to…

Sunday, 19 August 2018 21:13

In the Fade

Written by Jenny Farrell

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Jenny Farrell reviews a new German film about the rise of fascism in Germany. Winner of the Golden Globe for best foreign language film, In the Fade by Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, is one of the more important new political films on the state of Germany today. It is loosely…

Fascism

Monday, 28 May 2018 18:38

Cannes 2018: Best of the Rest

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe gives us his Best of the Rest from Cannes 2018. All the other critics have gone home but I’m still on the Croisette, the Cannes Boardwalk, sweeping up after them. This week I’ll finish my Cannes reporting with a look at the best of the three other competitions:…

Monday, 21 May 2018 18:53

Cannes 2018 vs. Cannes 1968: What a Falling Off Is This!

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe's final report on the hyperspectacle which is Cannes 2018. I would like to begin this Cannes Festival wrap up with the opening of At War, a film about the immolation of the French working class, which is an apt quote from Bertolt Brecht for these media-induced apathetic times: “It’s…

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Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:27

Art versus Commerce at Cannes 2018

Written by Dennis Broe

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Dennis Broe reports back from Cannes 2018. There are three big stories at the festival and in each the work of the artists, the film directors featured at Cannes, is countering or deepening the official story. The first is the MeToo anti-harassing and women’s rights campaign which two extraordinary films,…