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

Sergei Eisenstein

The Nightmare Before Christmas

23 December 2019 / 352

Jack Brindelli offers some lessons for the radical left from an animated skeleton This December is particularly troubling for an unrepentant leftist like me. On top of... Continue reading

Jack Brindelli

Films

arise! film review

9 December 2019 / 348

Jack Brindelli reviews arise!, the new film from Culture Matters, available to watch here. Director: Carl Joyce Writer: Paul Summers Cast: Joyce McAndrew, Amber Pearson, Brenda Heslop,... Continue reading

Jack Brindelli

Films

Blow It to Bits

27 November 2019 / 310

Rita di Santo interviews the British director Lech Kowalski, director of of Blow It to Bits Timely and urgent, but not in the daily papers, Blow It to... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

Synonyms: a denunciation of aggressive Israeli nationalism and its macho, militaristic culture

14 November 2019 / 314

Rita Di Santo reviews Synonyms by Nadav Lapid, showing at the Seville Film Festival Seville Festival is a great place to catch up with the best in... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

The Architects: a film about the reasons for the GDR’s collapse

8 November 2019 / 338

Jenny Farrell discusses The Architects, a film made in 1989/90 which traced the reasons for the collapse of the GDR 30 years ago, on 9 November 1990,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

Joker: living without class-consciousness and solidarity

28 October 2019 / 342

Fran Lock reviews Joker’s treatment of violence, poverty, class, gender and race, and the way it subverts ‘one of capitalism’s most pernicious fictions’ If you want to get... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Films

Sorry We Missed You: how capitalism is destroying working-class families

11 October 2019 / 502

Sorry We Missed You is director Ken Loach’s follow-up to his excoriating I, Daniel Blake which exposed how the welfare system has been turned into an apparatus... Continue reading

Mike Wayne

Films

Culture Punch: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and righteous anti-capitalist violence

8 October 2019 / 331

Paul Tims argues that Tarantino’s assertion of the value of violence in his latest film has a message for anti-capitalist activists I’m a huge Tarantino fan. You’re... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

Films

Noura’s Dream

7 October 2019 / 333

Rita Di Santo reviews Noura’s Dream After screening at the Toronto Film Festival, French-Tunisian filmmaker Hinde Boudjemaa’s Noura’s Dream had its Middle East premiere at the El... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

The film itself is Bait

10 September 2019 / 283

Class conflict, and the various ways class divisions are expressed and resolved in personal relationships, from outright violence to affection and peaceful co-existence, form the central themes... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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

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