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

Sergei Eisenstein

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

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 28 May 2018 18:38

Cannes 2018: Best of the Rest

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Written by Dennis Broe

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:…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 21 May 2018 18:53

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

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Written by Dennis Broe

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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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:27

Art versus Commerce at Cannes 2018

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Written by Dennis Broe

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,…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 23 April 2018 12:36

Marx and the cinema: labour on screen

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Written by Dennis Broe

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 Bro on the World Film Beat Breaking Glass on the subject of Marx and the cinema, as we approach May Day, a worldwide…

Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:19

Marx at the Movies

Written by John Green

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To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx this year, John Green gives a brief outline of some of the influences of Marxist thought on moviemakers. What influence has Marx had on film and the cinema? A rather odd if not idiotic question the reader might think. After…

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Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:53

Marx at the Movies

Written by John Green

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Eisenstein JeanLuc Godard Dogme

Tuesday, 06 February 2018 12:49

200 years young

Written by Scott McLemee

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Scott McLemee reviews The Young Karl Marx, which, on the eve of 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, contains themes of economic crises and inequalities that remain relevant today. Released last year but receiving as yet very little English-language press coverage, Der Junge Karl Marx is a nuanced and surprisingly accurate…

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