I’m Still Here: A serious portrait of life under Brazil’s military dictatorship reaches mass audience
More than 4 million Brazilians have seen Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here, the 5th highest box office in the country’s history.
More than 4 million Brazilians have seen Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here, the 5th highest box office in the country’s history.
The fraternal and humane sentiments expressed in the Instagram post received a significant and very positive response from both Canadians and Americans.
Grammy winning rapper Macklemore released a music video this week that expresses widespread revulsion at deepening capitalist barbarism, especially since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
This photo essay provides a glimpse of the working life of nattami, labourers exclusively involved in transporting goods between Colombo harbour, the warehouses and Pettah, the capital’s oldest and largest market.
A powerful new TV series recounts Lockerbie relative and campaigner Jim Swire’s dedicated struggle for the truth behind his daughter’s 1988 murder in the downing of PA103.
Three years after the “survival drama” phenomenon attracted millions of viewers’ attention worldwide, Squid Game’s second season struggles to build on the series’ cracked foundation.
Wolf Hall tackles a critical historical period, the Reformation, through one of its key actors, Thomas Cromwell, without reducing his biography to domestic melodrama or making the characters simply ciphers for the history.
Amid war, austerity and the promotion of far-right forces, a major radicalisation of workers and youth is underway. Films and television series have spoken very weakly so far to these complex, convulsive processes.
More than 4 million Brazilians have seen Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here, the 5th highest box office in the country’s history.
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) is an Expressionist masterpiece that reflects and speaks to the anxieties of its time.
“When it comes to people coming together in India, and really everywhere, the different cultures, languages and identities often come in the way of that unity.”
Gia Coppola’s depiction of aging entertainers in “America’s adult playground” is a turn to serious subject matter, and the results are generally impressive.
The fraternal and humane sentiments expressed in the Instagram post received a significant and very positive response from both Canadians and Americans.
Grammy winning rapper Macklemore released a music video this week that expresses widespread revulsion at deepening capitalist barbarism, especially since Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Wald's Dylan Goes Electric is the work on which the recent film about Bob Dylan’s early days in music, A Complete Unknown (James Mangold), is loosely based.
Lamar and much of the hip hop world represent the antithesis of opposition to big business and capitalism. Hip hop is big business.
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
There is promise in Senna’s demonstrating an awareness that there exists a “racial identity-industrial complex” in the contemporary world of art and culture.
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose career in feature films lasted half a century, from 1930 to 1981.
The mass anti-government agitation in Sri Lanka “was the result of real class differences in our society, the divisions between the haves and the have nots” – Prasanna Vithanage
One of his most accomplished works is Omar, a 2013 film about a young Palestinian baker (Adam Bakri) who becomes involved in complex political and moral matters.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Department of Defense interventions into American entertainment media is to “get people acclimated to the presence of military personnel, military bases, military operations, and weapons… normalizing the presence of the military in almost every aspect of life.”