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.
The nominations were largely weak and uninspiring, more than in recent years, reflective of a film industry in economic and artistic crisis
Southern California, in addition to being a center of the film and television industry, is a major focal point of cultural creation and exhibition. It is also home to remarkable recreational sites, tourist attractions and parks.
The film has done well at the global box office, but it has largely been overshadowed by events.
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.
The life story of Leonardo (1452–1519), one of history’s most extraordinary intellects and artistic geniuses, always stirs the imagination.
The film has done well at the global box office, but it has largely been overshadowed by events.
This year marks the 275th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s death. In December, over four million viewers watched the German TV film as a prelude to the anniversary.
Payal Kapadia’s class-conscious film skilfully combines documentary and fictional narrative techniques to dramatise the lives of individuals rarely shown in contemporary Indian cinema.
At the recent Golden Globe awards, it became the second-most-nominated film in the event’s history. (More than anything else, however, this points toward the current cinema vacuum.)
This year marks the 275th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s death. In December, over four million viewers watched the German TV film as a prelude to the anniversary.
The disasters produced by capitalism are threatening all of human culture.
The film attempts to depict the famous diva’s final days in 1977.
The events of James Mangold’s latest film occur in the period between Dylan’s arrival on the New York City folk scene in 1961 and his controversial “going electric” in 1965.
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 Booker Prize winner has struck a popular chord in a world poised between the immense potential of scientific advances and the threat of military and ecological catastrophe.
The academic career of prominent DSA member Aidan Beatty, the author of a slanderous trash biography of long-time Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, has been funded by Zionist institutions and Israeli-state sources.
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.”
