Film industry job losses, the bankruptcy of the unions and the fight for rank-and-file committees
Annual television production in Los Angeles declined by 58.4 percent in just three years.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Irish band Kneecap leads thousands in chant of “Free Palestine” at Coachella festival
According to various media reports, Kneecap’s projections were also used during their appearance on the festival’s first weekend, leading “to the livestream of the band’s set being cut off."
David Walsh•
Was Palestinian artist-photojournalist Fatima Hassouna targeted for death by the Israeli military?
The first thing one needs to do is dismiss with contempt the claims of IDF officials, who lie as often as they draw breath.
David Walsh•
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-fascism at the Lenbachhaus in Munich explores the political roots of the Surrealist movement
The FIARI declared: “Art has as little a fatherland as the workers. To advocate today a return to ‘French’ art is ... to consciously promote historical regression.”
Stefan Steinberg •
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Kipchumba Ochieng•
Darren Paxton•
Joanne Laurier•
Film industry job losses, the bankruptcy of the unions and the fight for rank-and-file committees
Annual television production in Los Angeles declined by 58.4 percent in just three years.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Adolescence: Gripping realism explores social pressures behind young male violence
The series asks how 13-year-old Jamie came to be capable of stabbing to death his schoolmate Katie, addressing themes of social breakdown, parenting, social media, bullying and the many malign influences on young men and boys.
Thomas Scripps•
The scandal of Toxic Town—birth defects linked to pollution in former UK steel town Corby
Toxic Town, a scandal about birth defects in UK town Corby dramatized in 4 episodes, is streaming now on Netflix.
Margot Miller•
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth: TV series dramatises Lockerbie relatives’ campaign for justice
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.
Steve James•
Luke Galvin•
Paul Bond•
David Walsh, Joanne Laurier•
Walter Gilberti•
Paul Bond•
On Falling: Crushing exploitation and a sense that something’s got to give
Director Laura Carreira repeatedly returns to the same settings of Aurora’s work and life, almost tableaus, to illustrate the repetitiveness and drudgery of her existence.
Darren Paxton•
The Teacher, from the occupied West Bank: “The system is rigged. It is perverted.”
Filmed mostly in the Nablus (West Bank) area, the movie is tense, enraged, and provides a sense of what Palestinian men and women experience on a daily basis under Israel’s horrific occupation.
Joanne Laurier•
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 11
East German film comedies from the 1970s–Don’t Cheat, Darling!, Orpheus in the Underworld, Carnations in Aspic
Thirty-five years after its dissolution, a stream of television films and documentaries continue to be made about the GDR, presenting the state solely as a brutal dictatorship demonstrating the failure of socialism.
Bernd Reinhardt•
The 75th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 10
The Settlement, a highly topical film from Egypt dealing with the working class
This is a gripping film, without nostalgic working class romanticism or "proletarian hero" pathos, and also without the moralistically tinged tone of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, which characterises many other socially critical films.
Verena Nees •
Clara Weiss•
Bernd Reinhardt•
Steve James•
Isabel Roy•
Martin Nowak, Bernd Reinhardt•
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (1937) in concert in New York City
Shostakovich’s symphony, composed in 1937, is one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
Fred Mazelis•
András Schiff, Neil Young, U.K. Subs and more
Musicians, artists, scientists and others collide with Trump administration’s police-state policies
This is how an authoritarian regime or a military dictatorship operates.
Hong Jian, David Walsh•
Darkside, MIKE and Sharon Van Etten: New music amid intensifying crisis
How are popular musicians responding—if they are—to deepening social turmoil?
Erik Schreiber•
“We must have love for those against us”
The Purple Bird and the good intentions of Bonnie “Prince” Billy
On his latest, country-oriented album, Will Oldham shows concern about the world’s ills, but offers misguided ideas about how to cure them.
Erik Schreiber•
Steve James•
Nick Barrickman•
Stefan Steinberg•
Thomas Scripps•
Shannon Jones, Valery Tsekov•
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a genuine egalitarian footing.
Eric London•
Danzy Senna’s Colored Television: Lacking the “pathos of distance”
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.
James McDonald•
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”—Part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part was posted January 8.
David Walsh•
A conversation with Joseph McBride about his study of Hollywood film director George Cukor: “There are many flawed people in his films, but Cukor understands human imperfection”–Part 1
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.
David Walsh•
Thomas Scripps•
Andrea Peters•
Steve Long•
David North•
Eric London•
Film director Prasanna Vithanage discusses Paradise with the WSWS
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
Richard Phillips•
Interview with Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian filmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar): “Gaza is the Bastille of our day … a lot is going to change”
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.
David Walsh•
Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage denounces Israeli genocide in Gaza
“I strongly denounce state-sponsored witch-hunt and prosecution against artists and activists who have come forward against Israel’s genocide.”
Wasantha Rupasinghe•
Roger Stahl discusses Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood with WSWS
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.”
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
David Walsh•
Vimukthi Vidarshana and Shree Haran•
Richard Phillips•
David Walsh•
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