Films

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

Sergei Eisenstein

Saturday, 12 January 2019 10:22

Roma

Written by Alejandro Hernandez

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Alejandro Hernandez digs out two important and interlinked political backstories from the Netflix movie Roma, about state-sponsored violence against progressive social movements, and how unequal class and gender power relations are expressed in the daily violence against domestic workers' conditions. Recently, Alfonso Cuarón was awarded best foreign language film and…

Thursday, 03 January 2019 18:27

The Student

Written by Jenny Farrell

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Jenny Farrell reviews The Student, a modern Russian film which is now available on DVD. Russian cinema today explores capitalism against the backdrop of a past socialist experience. Open-minded visitors to former socialist states, and particularly to Russia, will come across this living memory and frequently an acknowledgement of the…

soviet cinema Kerebrennikov

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 17 December 2018 11:13

3 Days in Quiberon

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Written by Rita Di Santo

Rita Di Santo reviews 3 Days in Quiberon, a feminist rebuke which implicates the audience as well as the industry. In May 1982, actress Romy Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment. She had been in the middle of writing a letter to cancel an interview with a woman’s…

Romy Schneider

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 02 November 2018 21:25

Peterloo

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Written by Mike Wayne

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…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 27 October 2018 18:02

Culture Punch: The Many Horrors of the Disney Corporation

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Written by Paul Victor Tims

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…

star wars Marvel

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…

Allende Chile Pinochet

Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:21

Black 47

Written by Luke Callinan

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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

Monday, 10 September 2018 09:28

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

Written by Dennis Broe

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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…

Friday, 07 September 2018 17:11

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

Written by Dennis Broe

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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