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

Sergei Eisenstein

Small Things Like These
Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:27

Small Things Like These

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Wonderfully adapted from the Claire Keegan’s novel, ‘Small Things Like These’, directed by Tim Mielant, is a strong film, emotional, radical and deep. It explores the infamous Magdalene Laundries, the institution where pregnant or “promiscuous” women could effectively be incarcerated for life. The story is told through the kind eyes…
Cillian Murphy Magdalene Laundries Berlin Film Festival Claire Keegan
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Saturday, 10 February 2024 10:28

Zombies and capitalism: George A. Romero's anti-capitalist critique, and his democratic, collaborative film-making

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Interview Transcript BG: Victor Halperin's movie ‘White Zombie’ from 1932, Jacques Tourneur’s ‘I Walked with a Zombie’ from 1943, Gordon Douglas' ‘Zombies on Broadway’ from 1945 … all early warning signs which were ignored by the great and the good alike until … [‘Night of the Living Dead’ audio clip]…
Night of the Living Dead Dawn of the Living Dead
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‘Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed’
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 01 February 2024 09:33

‘Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed’

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Brett Gregory interviews Dr. Louis Bayman, Associate Professor Film Studies at the University of Southampton BG: Even before the suicidal insanity of Brexit, the UK has always been regarded by the wider world as a very posh, very violent and very strange country: out of place and out of time,…
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The Wicker Man Witchfinder General Cry of the Banshee Blood on Satan's Claw
“When I make a movie, all I think about is the profit”: Alec Baldwin's Magic Bullet
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 31 January 2024 11:00

“When I make a movie, all I think about is the profit”: Alec Baldwin's Magic Bullet

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Dennis Broe explains how profit-making has cut corners in movie-making, especially since the pandemic. Image above: Grizzled outlaw Alec Baldwin One of the more hilarious moments of the Warren Commission’s likely cover-up of the Kennedy assassination occurred when Commission member and Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter presented what became known as…
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Grim, glorious visions of broken Britain: a review of the film 'Tish', and the photography of Tish Murtha
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 17 January 2024 12:10

Grim, glorious visions of broken Britain: a review of the film 'Tish', and the photography of Tish Murtha

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Brett Gregory reviews 'Tish', directed by Paul Sng, 2023, and presents some of Tish Murtha's photographs 'My use of photography and the approach to it is based on the conviction that the fundamental value of the medium is its capacity to provide direct, accurate and vital records of the conditions,…
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Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA took Hollywood
Saturday, 30 December 2023 12:46

Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA took Hollywood

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Brett Gregory, UK Desk for Arts Express on WBAI-FM Radio (New York) interviews Dr. Matthew Alford, Lecturer in Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (UK) BG: Hi, this is the UK Desk for Arts Express, and my name is Brett Gregory. The French Marxist philosopher, Louis…
Noam Chomsky Top Gun Mark Kermode Hotel Rwanda Three Kings Rainbow 6 Homefront Call of Duty Medal of Honour
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A taste for paradox and contradiction: a review of 'Godard Cinema' by Cyril Leuthy
Thursday, 21 December 2023 10:22

A taste for paradox and contradiction: a review of 'Godard Cinema' by Cyril Leuthy

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Cyril Leuthy composes his posthumous portrait of one of cinema’s great enigmas by entwining, with painstaking precision, original and archived interviews, film clips, newsreels, epistolary recitations and scripted voiceovers. The resulting narrative is totally and memorably Godard, running at 24 frames per second with a clear beginning, middle and end,…
Breathless The Little Soldier The Chinese
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Socialism, Scotland, Cinema and Song: Brett Gregory interviews David Archibald
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 08:55

Socialism, Scotland, Cinema and Song: Brett Gregory interviews David Archibald

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Brett Gregory, UK Desk for Arts Express on WBAI-FM Radio (New York) interviews David Archibald, Professor of Political Cinema (Theatre, Film & Television Studies) at the University of Glasgow (UK), December 2023. Image above: The Tenementals BG: Hi, this is the UK Desk for Arts Express, and my name is…
Loach Tenementals Havana Film Festival
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