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

Sergei Eisenstein

‘If we stop fighting, the world will die’: a review of Casablanca

17 September 2016 / 800

Phil Brett draws some lessons for today’s refugee crisis from Casablanca. Casablanca often features in lists of favourite films, and often receives highbrow scoffing. The novelist and... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Films

Once Upon a Time this West was full of Radicals: Sergio Leone, Revolution and Religion

19 June 2016 / 297

James Crossley analyses Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, unearthing their twin discourses of a materialist explanation of American capitalism and an expression of a revolutionary Christianity. Even if... Continue reading

James Crossley

Films

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

7 June 2016 / 315

Is there a British band in today’s music industry that definitively reflects or comments on the consequences of Tory austerity? Or one that is a direct reaction... Continue reading

Will Stone

Films

Don’t Tell Him Pike!

19 February 2016 / 324

Mark Perryman describes Dad’s Army as the most popular front of them all. 1968 was a tumultuous year. The Tet Offensive, the civil rights movement, the May... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Films

Dark Light

4 February 2016 / 324

John Smith, the avant garde film maker, has kindly offered Culture Matters his short film, Dark Light. Below, he introduces it. The only time I’ve visited a communist... Continue reading

John Smith

Films

The Third Man

14 December 2015 / 361

Mike Quille unearths the radical politics and art in Carol Reed’s great thriller. In an uncanny parallel with today, many in the Britain of 1949 were becoming... Continue reading

Mike Quille