Maestro: A hopelessly one-sided portrait of Leonard Bernstein
Exploring every aspect of Bernstein’s life, including his marriage, is certainly legitimate, but what Maestro has done is unacceptably one-sided—and therefore misleading.
Exploring every aspect of Bernstein’s life, including his marriage, is certainly legitimate, but what Maestro has done is unacceptably one-sided—and therefore misleading.
British actors, artists, writers and critics have issued an open letter demanding that arts institutions cease their censorship of pro-Palestinian views.
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
De Niro denounced Apple and the organizers of the Gotham Film and Media Institute for removing criticism of former president Donald Trump and the film industry.
The union announced an agreement Wednesday after two weeks of behind-closed-doors negotiations with the AMPTP. The talks have been going on, as the following interview makes clear, behind the backs of the SAG-AFTRA membership, who have been left entirely in the dark.
Although the death of Matthew Perry at age 54 is a tragedy, the inordinate attention paid by the corporate media to the TV actor—while genocide is being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli government—reveals both the fears and preoccupations of the capitalist ruling establishment.
Nothing good for the actors will come out of these behind-closed-doors talks. Actors should immediately demand that they know the contents of these negotiations.
In a blatantly undemocratic action aimed at forcing through a sellout agreement, the Writers Guild ordered its members to return work before they had even been given a chance to review and vote on the three year contract.
Exploring every aspect of Bernstein’s life, including his marriage, is certainly legitimate, but what Maestro has done is unacceptably one-sided—and therefore misleading.
The approach to World War II, Nazi Germany, the German occupation and the French resistance is muddy, confused and ahistorical.
The film bases itself on a family's experiences during the Iran-Iraq War, a bitter conflict that led to the deaths of over one million people.
While the film paints a vivid picture of the appalling suffering Barghouti’s lengthy incarceration has inflicted upon both him and his family, it underplays the political issues involved.
Exploring every aspect of Bernstein’s life, including his marriage, is certainly legitimate, but what Maestro has done is unacceptably one-sided—and therefore misleading.
A new documentary draws a detailed portrait of the founder of the Rolling Stones without offering much insight into his life and times.
Noname reserves her deadly mockery for artists who promote the “war machine” but also gives Jay Electronica a platform to promote backwardness.
With the new record, Waters revisits the themes that have been resonating with generations of audiences for a half-century.
After the outbreak of the new Israeli war against Palestinians a number of critics discovered antisemitism in the book and denounced Shibli as a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activist.
Roy’s comments speak to the revulsion felt by hundreds of millions at the savagery of the Israeli destruction of Gaza.
Now in its sixth edition, Racism without Racists has been central to the development and dissemination of the racialist outlook that currently dominates academia, much of the media, and significant sections of the political establishment in the United States.
The new book by Dr. Jonathan Howard carefully traces how traditional attacks on medical science from the anti-vaccine movement were used by doctors around the Great Barrington Declaration to promote an ongoing political attack on public health.
“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.”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.
Wizemann’s You Mean Everything to Me follows a young woman, Cassandra (Morgan Saylor), who, faced with homelessness, comes under the spell of a local DJ, Nathan (Ben Rosenfield).