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Putting the Banality of Evil on Screen

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

A review of The Zone of Interest (2023, Jonathan Glazer) Steven Spielberg said that Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, based on Martin Amis’s book of the same name, was the best film about the Holocaust since his own… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Arendt, Film, Holocaust

60 years of Spartacus

Posted on 24th October 2021 by International Socialism

On 6 October 1960, the film Spartacus opened in New York City’s DeMille Theatre.1Time Magazine celebrated “a new kind of Hollywood movie: a superspectacle with spiritual vitality and moral force”.2 Long-standing New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther was less… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Art, Arts and culture, Culture, Film

Keeping it real: the brutal art of Ken Loach

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

You have to be realistic rather than optimistic or pessimistic—Ken Loach, 2008.1 Appearances are often deceptive. Kenneth Charles Loach is a slightly built and softly spoken Oxford University law graduate. Yet when it comes to a wide range of social,… Continue Reading →

Article Arts and culture, Film, Ken Loach
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