Artists protest at London’s Barbican Centre over suppression of opposition to Israeli genocide
The episode is part of an ongoing conflict between the Barbican, the largest performing arts center in Europe, and opponents of the horrifying genocide.
The episode is part of an ongoing conflict between the Barbican, the largest performing arts center in Europe, and opponents of the horrifying genocide.
More than 100 music acts have withdrawn from SXSW, the largest music festival of its kind, in opposition to sponsorships by the US military and defense contractors responsible for the Gaza genocide.
Church and her family have been threatened by Zionists and fascists for her participation in events supporting the Palestinian people.
Someone letting the general public in on a dirty secret had to be denounced and smeared.
Creator/director Christopher Storer based the film’s setting on a childhood friend’s restaurant, Mr. Beef, in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
The real relationship of forces, above all the role of the working class, is missing from this account.
The sustained effort to avoid any reference to traumatic events, such as the ongoing genocide in Gaza, degrades and demeans the artists and their efforts.
Tom Smothers demonstrated an anti-establishment streak, in relation not only to the Vietnam War but other social issues, which led CBS executives, in April 1969, to cancel The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Nolan’s work has now been seen by well over 100 million people in dozens of countries, resulting in some $1 billion in box office revenue. It has collected 333 film awards internationally.
Wars, climate catastrophes, social devastation—the state of global capitalism are the real basis of many of the short films shown at this year’s Berlinale.
The awarding of the Golden Bear to the documentary by the French-Senegalese director Mati Diop is an indication that the dominant influence of identity politics in the cultural sector is losing ground.
With its portrayal of the young anti-fascist Hilde Coppi, Andreas Dresen’s new film recalls the varied forms of resistance to Hitler pursued by young people and working-class circles—so-called ordinary Germans.
More than 100 music acts have withdrawn from SXSW, the largest music festival of its kind, in opposition to sponsorships by the US military and defense contractors responsible for the Gaza genocide.
The musicians have reacted to the strong connections between the festival and the US military and corporate arms makers.
Gershwin wrote that his painting and music “spring from the same elements, one emerging as sight, the other as sound.”
Marley was more complex than painted here. Marcus Green offers only perfunctory indications of this complexity, confined within a framework of saintly justness.
Perhaps half the pieces are coming-of-age stories, that lyrical standby now usually written in a gritty but still rhapsodic voice.
David Marr’s Killing for Country documents many mass killings of indigenous people but falsely blames the entire population, not the ruling class and Australian capitalism.
The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life.
No doubt Kundera bore responsibility for his own art, his own development and his own mistakes. However, the greater, deeper blame for his unhappy trajectory and fate lies above all with Stalinism.
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.”
The WSWS recently spoke to filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director of Ahed’s Knee, on a video call.