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

Sergei Eisenstein

Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim

23 May 2019 / 337

Rita di Santo reviews Young Ahmed, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes recently Like Britain’s Ken Loach, Belgium’s most renowned filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You: the gig economy as agony, not freedom

21 May 2019 / 310

From Cannes, Dennis Broe reviews Ken Loach’s latest film, about the slow breakdown of a family exposed to the ‘freedom’ of the gig economy The first scene... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Films

Roma

12 January 2019 / 307

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... Continue reading

Alejandro Hernandez

Films

The Student

3 January 2019 / 319

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... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

Peterloo

2 November 2018 / 279

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... Continue reading

Mike Wayne

Films

Culture Punch: The Many Horrors of the Disney Corporation

27 October 2018 / 362

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... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

Films

Nae Pasaran: They Did Not Pass

19 September 2018 / 308

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... Continue reading

John Green

Films

Black 47

12 September 2018 / 387

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,... Continue reading

Luke Callinan

Films

In the Fade

19 August 2018 / 297

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... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

Marx and the cinema: labour on screen

23 April 2018 / 322

Dennis Broe traces the history of the representation of labour on screen, and finds inspiration for celebrating May Day and continuing Marx’s struggle against capitalism. This is... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

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