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

Sergei Eisenstein

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:27

Art versus Commerce at Cannes 2018

Written by Dennis Broe

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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,…

Monday, 23 April 2018 12:36

Marx and the cinema: labour on screen

Written by Dennis Broe

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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…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:19

Marx at the Movies

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Written by John Green

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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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 15 April 2018 12:53

Marx at the Movies

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Written by John Green

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 06 February 2018 12:49

200 years young

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Written by Scott McLemee

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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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:50

200 years young

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Written by Scott McLemee

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Saturday, 28 October 2017 16:39

The Death of Stalin

Written by Gerry Rowe

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Gerry Rowe is disappointed by The Death of Stalin. In Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’, the object of satire is a thoroughly British media company owned by equally feared and reviled tycoon Royston Merchant, never himself seen on screen. Who in their right, lefty mind wouldn’t…

Friday, 25 August 2017 07:37

Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?

Written by Daniel Clarkson Fisher

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Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a 'truly radical flowering' of progressive film culture. In keeping with his penchant for enormity, Christopher Nolan’s new film Dunkirk arrives at the intersection of two large…

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Monday, 14 August 2017 11:17

Dunkirk - a visceral account of the Allied retreat

Written by Michael Roberts

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Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture of Great Britain. Images, paintings and newspaper clippings which tell the story of 400,000 British troops attempting to retreat from France with the…

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Monday, 26 June 2017 19:49

'The most important of the arts': film after the Russian Revolution

Written by John Green

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John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the Soviet Union but across the world. According to the Bolshevik government’s first Commissar for Education, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Lenin remarked that, ‘Film for us…

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